92 Points | International Wine Cellar , January/February 2011

($75; petit verdot with a bit of carignan) Good full saturated medium ruby. Sweet but brooding aromas of blueberry, licorice and minerals. Chewy and huge, but with a juicy saline quality and a minerally note of graphite giving the wine terrific inner-mouth light. Bigger than the Brote Negro but without quite the same vibrancy or definition. This really saturates the tongue and palate and seems more harmonious at this stage than the outstanding 2007 was last year. Finishes with big, chewy tannins and superb breadth. (Southern Starz, Stamford, CT)

90 Points | Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate