1997 Pride Mountain Vineyards Reserve Claret While only microscopic quantities were produced of this wine It is an immense wine of extraordinary concentration and depth. The compelling 1997 Reserve Claret offers an opaque purple color in addition to a sumptuous bouquet of sweet blackberries creme de cassis and minerals superb richness exceptional concentration and huge body. However it manages to avoid being overbearing or unmanageable. Purity and delineation are also present in this multi-dimensional prodigious wine. Although an infant in terms of development it is accessible because of the ripe tannin and spectacularly-concentrated fruit. RP
