Deep red. Strikingly complex nose melds redcurrant, dark cherry, licorice and smoky minerals, along with a suave tobacco overtone. Bright red berry flavors are complemented by blood orange and graphite, with silky tannins lending subtle shape and lift. Pure, understated and precise, with excellent finishing sweetness and focus. Really lovely balance here. I recently drank a bottle of 1998 Quintet that offered suave red fruit, silky texture and wonderfully sweet, mineral-driven persistence. It showed no signs of age and years of further development potential. After five days in the recorked bottle it was redolent of cigar box, fresh redcurrant and cherry, with an iron-rich finish that reminded me of a great Pauillac.