Tasted 7/18/08 at Red Carpet Wine, Glendale, CA.

Thanks to the quality of 2005, more and more unheard-of petite chateaux are coming out of the woodwork. This wine is a 100% Merlot single-vineyard cuvee that sells locally for a mere $18.50.

Good cedar/spice box/pencil shavings on nose, dark berry fruits, tight, good body, mouthcoating tannins, long very dry, austere finish; even this humble-pedigreed wine needs time to settle down.
89 pts.