Jamie Goode | Charcoal, graphite, and sweet black fruits on the nose. The palate is lush, sweetly fruited and enticing, with gravelly, chalky structure underpinning the grainy, ripe blackberry and blackcurrant fruit. This is a sweetly fruited, substantial wine that combines its lush appeal with good balance and well-integrated structure. Brooding and delicious. | 94

Andrew Jefford | Dark black-red. Sherbety-sweet scents; plenty of simple, primary allure here in which oak plays a leading role. On the palate, the oak finds a foil in the intense, vivid, attacking and deep fruits; at this stage, indeed, there is more complexity to the palate than the aromas suggested there would be. This is a good wine that, with a little more aromatic complexity, would win a high score. | 89

David Williams | Attractively pure black-cherry and cassis fruit and a sheen of spicy oak; there’s juiciness on the palate, but all that chewy, dry, oak tannin and flavor overwhelms to the finish. | 85