Simon Field: Deep saturnine color, a nose of autumnal evenings and Keatsean lament. The fruit character is refined, generous, and rich of texture; blueberry, morello cherry, and a little fig. Then comes impressive mid-palate gravitas, shrouded by acidity and a tannic foil that is firm and uncompromising but does not overwhelm the ensemble. | 90

Andrew Jefford: Dense, dark, saturated black-red. Very attractive aromas: complex, built around a perfumed fruit core but with an as-yet-subdued sense of promise that suggests much more will come with time. We get well beyond the straightforward green-edged blackcurrant here, and off into creaminess and more. On the palate, this seems one of the best of the very difficult 2007 set: lovely, pure, deep-set blackcurrant fruit characters, with crisp tannins and that very driving, gimlet-like vintage style. Honestly, I still don’t like it much, but whoever has made this has truly done their best with the raw materials. | 90

Richard Mayson: Deep, inky, and opaque, thin crimson rim. Ripe yet withdrawn, rather ungainly and gangly on the nose at this stage. Big and bold on the palate, big, brash tannic structure yielding to lovely dark-chocolate concentration on the finish. Needs time to develop finesse. 2025–55. | 91