Enough wood to notice sets off exuberantly fresh, higher toned and slightly more elegant aromas of mostly various dark berries and earth. There is again a really lovely sense of underlying tension that suffuses the attractively textured medium weight flavors that deliver very fine length on the saline-suffused finale. ESJ rarely drinks especially well young and in that mold, this is going to need at least a few years first.
Score: 92 points -- Allen Meadows, Burghound.com, 2023