Deep garnet with amber edges. Burning tires and vitamin C soaked in gasoline dominate the bouquet. No, wait. There’s a little pond scum and morning-after asparagus-pee in there. Flat and gone. Oh, but that note of alcohol doesn’t seem to have gone anywhere. Funny how that works. Not even a decade old and complete dretch. Shockingly maderized and completely that whole toasted-almond miserable oxidation situation. Fat and pruney. Thin, badly integrated acids still bounce along the long finish of roasted black-walnut tannin. Just a miserable wine and I have tasted SO MANY of these young. 14-7 and never had a chance. Don’t know who makes this, don’t care. They screwed up in search of the holy grail of early-term ripeness and extraction. Ya now how they say to wide-outs and one-hit-wonders, “I hope they saved their money!” Well, I hope these people sold a TON of this in 2007. And I pray no one considered it a cellar-candidate. 14-7. ◊