The 2008 Grand Ciel Cabernet Sauvignon has a rare purity of fruit flavors. This is a wine of class, focus and concentration and shows a profile of ripe Bordeaux-style tannins, red currents, bright cherries, cocoa powder and cedar. It is a complete and seamless wine almost to the point that it defies this analytical dissection. The wines’ classical structure and deep, focused intensity melts into a silky long finish. Although both richly flavored and powerful now, cellaring will be rewarded with further enhancement.