2015 Tablas Creek "Panoplie" Paso Robles Rhône Blend (Previously $90)

Deeper and richer, the Mourvèdre-dominated 2015 Panoplie (71% Mourvèdre, 24% Grenache, and 5% Syrah) offers loads of dark fruits and smoky, meaty, classic Mourvèdre notes in a tight, medium to full-bodied package. It has remarkable purity of fruit and its tannin quality is off the charts. It’s going to benefit from 4-5 years of bottle age and drink well for two decades. (11/2018)

Dark purple. A heady, exotically perfumed bouquet evokes ripe dark berries, candied flowers, incense and baking spices, along with a smoky mineral overtone. Broad, deep and intensely spicy on the palate, offering sweet blackberry and bitter cherry flavors that flesh out slowly as the wine stretches out. Concentrated yet vibrant and almost shockingly lithe, showing strong finishing cut and chewy tannins that add final grip. (JR) (9/2018)

Blended of 71% Mourvèdre, 24% Grenache and 5% Syrah, the 2015 Panoplie has a medium garnet-purple color and slightly closed, earthy nose, revealing damp earth, forest floor and wet rock notes over crushed blackberries and wild blueberries, plus a waft of cracked black pepper. Full-bodied and densely packed with earth, black/red fruits and spice layers, it has a chewy structure and long, layered finish. (LPB) (9/2017)