Medium ruby with wide thin edges. Big spicy nose flush with dark berry and perfumed notes see-sawing back-and-forth between densely loamy and higher exotic notes almost like thumbin through a new ELLE or ALLURE or VANITY FAIR until it all settles down into flabby nothingness. I believe this is the third 2013 I have had: Alta Maria Carbonic, Clendenen ‘Pip’ and this one. It is somewhat in a tie for ‘least interesting’ with the former–but for opposite reasons. Where the Alta Maria was brightly-fruited-uninteresting, this one is dark-and-round-uninteresting. Cola and viscous thin-ness, with little acid and microscopic tannin. Really vapid stuff. The early nose is the best you will get and it all goes downhill from there. Meager, vapid, non-event. 14-0 ◊