seamless luxury from stem to stern, this ‘baby grange' is  impressive juice. blackberry, menthol and smoke play unusually elegantly on the nose, the texture is velvet on the tongue with dark berry, coffee, licorice and muted black pepper flavors. the superb, very long finish combines all the elements with wonderful finesse and a rare grace. not inexpensive, but fairly priced; you could pay twice as much for half the wine, almost any day in any fine wine store in the country. to be released 5/01.
RWT