Also 100% syrah and the label read 14.9% alcohol. Opaque purple (its name gives a hint), the nose showed overripe black plum and lots of vanilla oak. Huge presence of ripe plum fruit, lashings of oak, drying tannins and a big structure. This wine is certainly not for the faint hearted! Very young and, given the 1995 wine that I tried before, this needs time in bottle to find its personality. Not rated