Simon Field | A glossy, almost immediately seductive example: raspberry and cream, blueberry on toast, with no lack of extraction. Barrique, some of it new, no stems, and a lengthy maceration. Plush and velvet; ripe and powerful; the modern face of the Languedoc writ large, wonderfully approachable and ultimately, for all the sultry intervention, rewarding for region and consumer alike. | 92

Andrew Jefford | Saturated deep black-red; opaque. Very sweet and ripe but not overdone: lavish plum, black cherry, and bramble, with a liqueur-like appeal to them. Haunting and beguiling. Give it a little time in the glass, and you’ll see soft menthol and a pencilly refinement, too: a super scent. In the mouth, it’s very deep, very rich, very long, very ample, very succulent: an evident luxury red that doesn’t disappoint. Beautifully turned out and tailored, this would make a worthy ambassador for the Languedoc for any drinker who enjoys generous, ripe-contoured wines. 2018–27. | 92

Jancis Robinson | Very dark crimson. Not much aromatic expression, though a little suggestion of VA. And on the palate there is some strange sweet and spicy oak. Hungarian? That sort of grip and aromatics anyway. By no means a bad wine. Certainly distinctive and with a beginning, middle, and end. Big, bold, and bloody. Still with quite a tannic grip, though not excessively so. 2019–26. | 89