Pine Ridge Fortis - 2008 (750ml) Charbono is one of the oldest

is one of the oldest old-vine vineyards remaining in the Olivet-Piner region

and a dark garnet color with considerable amber at the edge

The 2012 Dom Pérignon is developing very nicely on cork

If readers cannot get excited by tasting the 1996

Its colour is pale gold with greenish hues

Pine Ridge Fortis - 2008 (750ml) Charbono is one of the oldestThe 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