Nicolas Belfrage: Second bottle shows first was faulty. Very deep color. Ripe, raisiny, plummy nose and palate. Plenty of sweet fruit and evolved character. Sweet and ripe on finish, with concentration to go on in years. 16.5

Stephen Brook: Powerful, brooding black-fruit nose, with a fair amount of oak. Suave and voluptuous, with a seductively velvety texture. Very concentrated fruit, but there’s some appealing spice and firm underlying tannins to give grip to the palate. Solid and monolithic now, but this is clearly very young. The finish is very long, peppery, and lively. A majestic wine. 18.5

Andrew Jefford: Second bottle. Deep, near-opaque black-red. Round, full, smooth-contoured, well-composed, yet slightly featureless aromatic profile. Satisfying nonetheless, with its very faint hints of incense over a subtle base of creamy fruit. Concentrated, multidimensional, and dense, with intense though typically refined black and red fruit and a rich, lightly textured palate hinting at licorice, orris, and tea leaf behind the fruit sheen. A long, resonant finish promises at least a decade of further bottle evolution. Very good wine that, with a little more aromatic refinement, could be fine. 16