Michael Edwards: Deep, natural, not overextracted color; creamy black-fruit aromas, attractive and friendly; mid-weight, generous, nonblockbuster palate, gentle but satisfying. Excellent balance- 17

Andrew Jefford: Saturated black-purple. Sweet, warm, rather clayey, and inchoate, yet promisingly ripe. Lush, full, rich, ample, supremely softcontoured, and gentle: a kind of yak of a wine, covered in shaggy fruit and draped in very soft tannins, with little palpable acid presence. The fruit core is present, though not briskly or precisely defined. It’s so passive in terms of its articulation (thanks to ultralow acidity) that it might be easy to dismiss, yet there is much here to enjoy, and it has a clear sense of place to it… A warm site in the sun. Delicious- 15

Marcel Orford-Williams: Delicious. Restrained, slightly Protestant style. Fruity, clean, intriguing, and long. I like it. Finish has some sweetness- 17