AJ | Dark, purposeful black-red. This is very good: warm, settled, rounded, built on a splendid core of fruit which has now modulated towards secondary resonance. Harmonious, glowing, enticing ... though relatively warm, in truth. Perhaps that accounts for its swift passage towards full secondary characteristics Grand wealth of fruit here, and fine structure, too. Open, glowing and accessible; there may be developments ahead but it has achieved its full articulacy for me. The affable tannins are holding it in place; the fruit is open, ripe, structured and long, but thoroughly scrutable. Fine Pinot with a broad beam to roll around in the mouth and linger with over table. Splendid tannins.Drink Dates: 2024 - 2028. 94
AR | Youthful ruby for its age slightly shading to garnet now, there's some initial raspberryish sweetness on the mid palate, and while the aromas are now quite evolved (in a good way), the fruit too is quite juicy in dark berry fruit vein with sub-threshhold oak bringing a suppleness of texture and a nice overall balance to a wine that's ready for drinking now but with its incisive freshness, should continue to drink well for up to three to five years.Drink Dates: 2024 - 2029. 90
DW | Wonderful shimmering but focused concentration of raspberry, cherry and dark currants; upright and serious, but with plenty of crunch and sap and vigour; tannins are plentiful but fine and polished, acidity is refined and enlivening – crushed rock minerals on a cool, composed, long finish that is sensitively, perfectly seasoned with salt and pepper . Elegance, built to last.Drink Dates: 2024 - 2038. 95