MISSION HILL QUATRAIN 2020

Part of Mission Hill’s top tier Legacy Series, Quatrain is a very ripe, powerful dense and delicious blend based on syrah, with merlot and the cab brothers – franc and sauv. The nose is very expressive with plummy/black cherry fruit, violet, pepper, cedar and wood spice. It is full bodied, open knit, dense and enveloping with considerable sandy tannin. A big rich cuddly yet well structured red for the cellar. The length is excellent. best 2028 well into the mid -30s. Tasted Oct 2024 Score – 93. (David Lawrason, winealign.com)