Alison Buchanan: Very darkly colored, this nonetheless is less clinging in the glass. The nose is highly perfumed, not particularly vinous but floral— violet-scented. The palate combines rose, violet, and earthy minerals with dark chocolate raisins and mocha cream. This is an extraordinary glassful—so perfumed, so alluring, and with so many layers and such complexity. | 89

Andrew Jefford: Very dark, now, with a brown-yellow rim, but less viscous in the glass than many of its peers. Harmonious and refined aromas of raisins, chocolate, mint, pine, camphor, with nothing obtruding; no palpable orange anymore. Elegant rather than monstrous, or such is the suggestion of the aromas. Dense, deep-founded, and vivid, and actually there is a liveliness of fruit here, which I didn’t expect, though it is the liveliness of dried fruit, of raisins. Very pure, sheer, pristine, and fine. | 92

Margaret Rand: Precise and detailed, hardly sweet, certainly savory, like very concentrated beef essence. Less aroma than some, just this sense of essence of wine. Extraordinary, harmonious, all unnecessary decoration gone. | 91