Simon Field: Bold papal colouring, ripe summer fruits and forest flowers. A delicious and hedonistic ambassador of a sunny vintage, as of yet untaxed in the rigours of maturity. Nonetheless, a wine of considerable merit, charm and potential, structurally more than capable of a lengthy and fascinating evolution. 18

Andrew Jefford: Very promising extractive depth: fully opaque and widow-black. Vivid youthful fruits, stili with lots of the smashed vegetable sap of infant Vintage Port. Not orchestral yet, though; give it time. Dense, taut, tight, closely woven - this is enormously impressive, with layer upon layer of dense, youthful, pounding fruit backed by ample though accessible tannins and the kind of surging peppery exuberance that one loves to see in infant Vintage Port. This bodes exceptionally well... 18.5

Richard Mayson: Very good deep opaque centre, thin crimson rim. Still open, and a touch floral, but quite raw and still to close up. Rich, fleshy fruit with fine, ripe, dusty tannins exploding on the finish. A good mid- to long-distance wine. Drink 2015-2030 plus. 15.5