Pine Ridge Fortis - 2008 (750ml) Charbono and a dark garnet color

and a dark garnet color with considerable amber at the edge

A fine balance

The 2012 Dom Pérignon is developing very nicely on cork

With continued aeration

Pine Ridge Fortis - 2008 (750ml) Charbono and a dark garnet colorThe flagship 2008 Cabernet Sauvignon Fortis (with a different label and a heavier bottle) has an opaque ruby purple color and gorgeously sweet, concentrated black currant fruit with sweet cherry, plum, Asian spice, and some subtle oak. It is full bodied and very graceful, with superb equilibrium and intensity. This is a terrific, very young but very promising, prodigious Cabernet Sauvignon that should drink well for 20 25 years. Barrel samples of the