Michael Edwards: Nice full color, speaking substance; full nose, suggestive of black grapes, but a smack of acidity, too. Again, vigorous acidity on the palate, but there’s healthy fruit here to cope. Young tasting but worth cellaring through 2013 16

Simon Field: Straw coloring, then a nose of red fruit, verbena, and ripe apple. A rich, quite authoritative black-fruit, oaky, oxidative style, with hints of Bovril and digestive. Quite high dosage but impressive concentration, too 16

Tom Stevenson: Deeper colored, more complex, deliberately oxidative style. Characterful, rich, big acids. Could do with a little postdisgorgement aging to bring the aromatics in tune with the winemaking style 16