Jesús Barquín | Deep, almost opaque cherry. Nose is intense, with notes of graphite and spice, and a hint of menthol. Concentrated palate with earthy tannins, possibly overextracted. | 90

Andrew Jefford | Saturated, dense red-black; still opaque. Attractive aromatic profile: an architecture of blackcurrant, cherry, bramble, and damson, but softening and settling and filling with time. There’s also a fresh-snipped grassiness here. On the palate, this is deep, structured, and very long-flavored. The fruits still drive the core flavors, but there are secondary complexities, too; the tannins are ample and unapologetic but finally rounded and accessible. | 91

Richard Mayson | Good, deep, youthful color; attractive, open, ripe, savory-cedary fruit on the nose, with some well-integrated oak that, in this case, slightly flatters the fruit; firm but not especially big, mid-weight with a rather dry tannic finish, just lacking the flesh to carry it all off successfully. | 84