Stephen Brook | Muted nose of damsons and black cherries, brooding and reserved, with a hint of oak. Medium-bodied and very fresh, limpid, with decent concentration and good acidity. Perhaps it’s a touch simple and one-dimensional, but it’s up front and enjoyable. Balanced and quite long on the finish. | 89

Alex Hunt | A deep purple color and super-ripe sweet dark fruit plus alcoholic warmth give a blackberry- gin impression on the nose. The palate is straightforward but nicely balanced, with some freshness and tannic support for the exuberant blackberry fruit. | 87

Andrew Jefford | Dark, dense black-red. Classic Zin scents of exuberant, sweet berry fruit: lots of warm, bubbling blackberry, and that distinctive hot- summer-day charm that the variety and the place can deliver. This is a dense, vivacious, and concentrated wine on the palate, and the flavors are a kind of smoothie essence of crunchy sour-sweet red and black fruits. It almost tastes as if it should be packed with vitamins. No tannic presence, by contrast, and a lively redcurrant- and-cassis acidity provides the wine’s balance. High impact, but I’m not sure I could drink much of it. | 88