Simon Field: An attractive and pure aromatic—pure and focused, with blackberry and summer pudding to the fore; decadent and very hard to resist. The palate rejoices in an open and very tight-knit celebration of the virtues of Douro fruit, ripe and resonant. New-style Vintage Port, lifted but not volatile, rich but not overly alcoholic; impressive insight and fine detail, beautifully etched; some prefer Rembrandt’s sketches to his finished paintings. | 93

Andrew Jefford: Saturated, deep black-red. Warm, sweet, earthy, expressive, still a touch yeasty, and exuberant—this is an ’07 with more expansiveness and breadth than most of its peers. Finally, after many rather oppressively reserved or dry wines, this is one with some intrinsically sweet fruits, and some attractive flesh and contour. I still feel the tannin-alcohol combination is excessively austere, though, and I’m not sure how the evolution will go here, but it’s off to a better start than many. | 88

Richard Mayson: Another very deep, dark, totally opaque ’07; sultry and heady on the nose, withatouch of hot tar underlying; similarly ripe and voluptuous on the palate, baked fruit, rich and sweet in style, plenty of flesh still masking the tannins, which rise slowly in the mouth and leave a dense, rather soupy finish. Not a great deal of finesse, but perhaps needs time to emerge. 2028–55. | 88