The dense ruby/purple-colored 1997 Profile Proprietary Red Wine offers a ripe, sweet nose of licorice, blackberry, cassis, and toast. Medium to full-bodied, with moderately high tannin, abundant new oak, and a long, concentrated finish, it will be at its peak between 2002-2014.

Mature and drinking well, with complex plum, earth, anise, currant and savory herb flavors and cedary oak, tilting toward dry, grainy tannins on the aftertaste. -- Blind 1997/2007 California Cabernet retrospective (January 2017). Drink now. 5,200 cases made.