Stephen Brook: Deep red. Ripe, delicate raspberry nose, showing freshness and finesse. Mediumbodied, but velvety and rich, with good concentration and considerable grip and depth of flavor. Both tannins and acidity are quite assertive now, and this would benefit from a bit more bottle age. But it’s an elegant expression of Zinfandel, and the tannins, while robust, are fine-grained. Quite long 17

Alex Hunt: Fairly closed, and more on the herbal spectrum than some (though not in a bad way). The palate is quite an individual take on the grape, with the fruit toned down— more bramble than jam—and a savory-tarry quality alongside it. While the wine may lack the instant appeal of the fruit-bomb brigade, its complexity and balance are likely to make it less fatiguing over a second or third glass and a more appropriate companion for food than many 16

Anthony Rose: Deeply colored and vivid, this displays blackberry-jelly fruits on the nose and sweet ripe plum on the palate; it’s powerful, almost Porty, with lots of sweet spicy fruit and quite firm tannins bringing a distinctly chewy sensation on the aftertaste. It could do with a bit more acidity, and with this level of alcohol and tannin, it needs something like a cassoulet to mop up the tannins 15.5