Essi Avellan: First bottle was faulty. Deep golden color. Evolving toasty nose, with bruised apple-and-wax character with lactic notes. Round and fleshy on the palate, which feels heavy. Powerful but unrefined, lacking freshness 14

Simon Field: Oxidized, bruised apple, quite ungainly. (Bottle 2 was no better for me.) 9

Tom Stevenson: First bottle odd: maderized, lifeless. Second bottle much warmer, but clean, not maderized, nor lifeless. However, it’s not particularly exciting either 10.5