Red wine from hidden vineyards across Paso Robles, California. A rustic punch of blueberries, black cherries and red currants with a touch of mint and rosemary. Drink with friends after putting in a hard day's work. Aged for 8 months in neutral French oak barriques.

Here the beautifully layered nose is at once riper and more complex but also more restrained with its reasonably fresh aromas of apple, spear, spice, herbal tea and soft oak wisps. There is outstanding volume to the equally ripe and powerful flavors that exhibit a lovely underlying tension on the impressively persistent and attractively stony finish where the only nit is hint of warmth.