Bruno Besa | Garnet to orange. Open nose, a touch rustic, with road tar, small red fruits, orange peel, and leather. Medium body, with a sweet orange- marmalade palate, and slightly simple finish. | 86

Stephen Brook | Lean cranberry nose, with an overlay of oak. Lean, sleek, and intense, with bold tannins and an almost excessive sucrosity that’s close to jammy. I find this fatiguing despite the generosity of fruit. Ripe, chocolaty finish, yet it lacks structure and drive. | 84

Andrew Jefford | Very clear, translucent and elegant. Potion-like scents: a little unpredictable and strange, but not entirely unsatisfying either. Medicinal, earthy, rooty, with a kind of pulpy ripeness. On the palate, the wine is very ripe, with modest acidity; adequately and smoothly tannic; but still with that rather strange sensorial profile, not unlikable but not entirely classical either: savory, dry-fruited, secondary. Not a glowing note, then, but in the global context this is still very good, very serious wine of considerable interest. | 90