Tasting Notes: The 2006 Paixar is 100% Mencia from 80+-year-old vines planted in slate. The wine is naturally fermented, aged for 16 months in new French oak, and bottled without filtration. A glass-staining opaque purple, it offers up a brooding, kinky bouquet filled with Asian spices, incense, black currant, plum, and black cherry. Elegant, silky-textured, and impeccably balanced, it comes off as an imaginary blend of Grand Cru Burgundy and Cote Rotie. Give this sexy effort 5-7 years of additional cellaring and drink it from 2015 to 2030.

An other-worldly perfume of kinky wild blueberries, incense, leather, and truffle leaps from the glass. Sexy and sweet on the palate, the wine has great depth and grip, potential complexity, and superb balance. It will evolve for 5-7 years and be at its best from 2015 to 2031.