Full yellow-gold; the darkest of the range of Ritchie wines): More advanced on the nose than the 2005, offering slightly funky, high-toned aromas of orchard fruits and earth. Fat and sweet but a bit heavy, conveying a bitter edge to its very ripe peach and mirabelle flavors that carries through to the wine's somewhat phenolic finish. Can't match the 2004 Hyde for density or length, much less verve and definition, but this is still in reasonably good shape.