Simon Field: Brooding authority of colour, lovely complex nose, sweet and savoury, for now and for later. On the palate, this is ripe, fulsome and articulate - a wine with extremely impressive structure, sweetness and light, a wine that will be approachable soon but has the core of persistence that will repay patience. 18

Andrew Jefford: Impressive black-purple still, but not very leggy or dense. Relatively evolved scents, like a good Margaret River Cabernet around the ten-year mark. Still recognisably blackcurrant but with the ringing roundness of age. Good flavour concentration, lovely fruit qualities in mid-evolution as on the nose, the sweet freshness of youth beginning to broaden and fill out. Lovely drinking, but relatively artless and straightforward. I score it just into 'very good’ on the basis of the fruit qualities. 14.5

Richard Mayson: Deep opaque centre, thin crimson-purple rim. Closed, giving very little away on the nose. Firm, fine fruit on the palate, lacking the breadth of some '94s but with great purity on the finish. Drink 2008-2025.16