Brooding bouquet with brambly black fruit, briary, wild heather and cold stoney aromas. The palate is medium bodied with sappy red and black fruit, very well balanced with crisp but firm tannins. The fruit feels blacker than previous vintages, a little more salinity towards the finish that conveys a subtle marine influence. It is a more introspective take on Columella, but this lends it an intellectual bent that I think was not a characteristic of the earlier vintages. —96 Points Neal Martin, Wine Advocate, April, 2017