The opaque purple-colored 1996 Cabernet Sauvignon is a blockbuster monster crammed with phenomenal potential. It offers up a sensational nose of licorice, chocolate, cassis, Provencal herbs, and pain grille. The wine is succulent and full-bodied, as well as extraordinarily powerful and backward. It should be drinkable within 5-7 years, and age beautifully for three decades. RP 1998