This is the best wine that John can produce each year, some years it is not made. These are the oldest vines and the best barrels. This wine always has a velvety, thick and deep mouthfeel but with outstanding retention of acidity and freshness and a distinctive earthy, sappy complexity which is the terroir. Pure, long and complex this will age well, the wine's terrific stony lift on the finish gives it nice definition. Excellent.