This wine gives your nose rather strong, spicy aromas. The start is also ample and spicy, filling your mouth rather totally. The middele presents soft, nimble tones, but also some playful shots of tannine. The finish lasts considerably well. After hitting the tip of your tongue and the inner sides of your lips, the taste returns back to the back parts of your mouth. Quite an interesting round-trip. By noting the corpulence, one might guess that the wine's lifespan could be pretty long. But to the turn of the millenium...? Would be best to test also in between. And it will be a nice task since this wine has really not been spoiled by a high price-tag.

P.S. I've seldom bumped into a ® sign in a wine's name. I wonder if the people at Bergendal are afraid that the Norwegians, with all their oil money, start constructing gigantic greenhouses in Bergen, and become the new wine masters of the steep slopes?