($240) Ruby-red. Flamboyantly ripe aromas of currant, rocks, tobacco and chocolate. Very ripe, lush, broad and sweet, if a bit youthfully sullen. This has very good life for the year if not quite the definition of the 2005. Finishes with substantial tongue-dusting tannins.

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The 2004 St. Eden seems to hit all the sweet spots on my palate. A wine of great complexity, richness, and intensity, with oodles of creme de cassis fruit and plenty of roasted herbs and meatiness, with exceptional power and richness, this wine has fleshed out since I had it last year, and seems to be destined to be one of Bond's most compelling wines, a full-bodied wine with great purity, richness, and beautifully integrated acidity, wood, and tannin.

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Superripe yet supple and balanced, with deep, enticing blackberry, ripe plum and wild berry fruit that's rich and concentrated, with a long, persistent finish. The tannins are firm and structured.

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Beautifully evolved with dark blackberry, smoke, forest floor, firm but smooth tannin, moderate finish.