Dusted Valley Vintners Wallatage

wow, super impressed with this wine. Still dark in color, very well integrated, deep and dark fruits. Held up very well and still tasting great. Enjoy if you have

2.5 years has made quite a difference. Now, nicely balanced fruit, savory, acid, tannins. Spicy, sweet nose. Odd blend of a third each of cab franc, malbec & petit verdot; hard to say which dominates and hard to identify specific tastes, though it’s a bit heavy handed with the wood. Finish persists, but without distinction. Overall, good enough, but not stellar. Plenty of structure to last through the decade. 2/6/2014 note: First impression of spicy fruit was favorable, but it …