JAMES SUCKLING: "This was always one of the wines of the vintage with currant, cassis and chocolate aromas and flavors. Full body, chewy and polished tannins and a fresh and fine finish. Tight now but so beautiful. Decant a couple of hours before serving."

ROBERT PARKER: "Typically extracted and powerful (which is atypical in a vintage such as 2008), this offering may lack charm, but it is "locked and loaded" with plenty of background oak, huge black cherry and black currant fruit, medium to full body and a boatload of tannin. Forget it for 8-10 years and drink it over the following three decades. - Robert Parker Jr."

WINE SPECTATOR: "Alluring, with warm fig sauce, plum and currant paste notes liberally laced with espresso bean and dark roasted vanilla bean notes. Fleshy but focused, with the roasted edge adding definition and length. Drink now through 2019. - James Molesworth"

FALSTAFF: "Dunkles Rubingranat, violette Reflexe. In der Nase feine reife Zwetschkenfrucht, ein Hauch von Lakritze und Orangenzesten, feine Röstaromen, angenehmes Bukett. Straffe Textur, präsent, die Tannine sind jetzt besser integriert, haben ihre anfängliche Sprödigkeit abgelegt, zeigt gute Länge. - Peter Moser"

Ausbau
Maischegärung in Holzfässern (18 bis 21 Tage), Gärtemperatur: 30 bis 32 °C.