With Mesquite grilled NY strips, snow peas and roasted youkon gold potatoes. Obtained as a gift and properly stored. 14% alcohol per the label.
On opening, intense aroma of raspberries and blackberries, flavor difficult to determine behind acid and tannins to dry the mouth, but high hopes for a little later. The color was "gold pink" in stained glass parlance - the color gold chloride gives to glass, a blued rose, with some clearing at the edges but no ambering. No sign of the mintiness they claim is typical for the vinyard.
3 hours after decanting, the nose had calmed down to pleasant brambleberries, and the acid and tannins had tempered, but still strong. The flavor had changed to chocolate covered cherries, but it was not very long.All in all, very youthful, pleasant with the food, and I wish I had more to follow the development.