AJ | Clear, dark black-red. Zippy raspberry with quiet root spice: lots of fruit appeal, here. Excellent. Rhubarb, too, and apricot. Exciting fruit fest flavours, as the nose suggested; plump and mouthfilling. Lovely intrinsic sweetness to those fruits, and they have purity and length, too. Just a little more structuring tannin and vinous sinew would be welcome. One of those bounding exuberant labrador wines which would be better if it could just calm down a little. So much to enjoy, though!Drink Dates: 2024 - 2030. 90
AR | Medium ruby in colour with a healthy youthful hue, this is still quite youthful in its aromatic profile, showing a degree of berry fruit fragrance, underscored by fresh herbal notes too; there's some attractive, mid-palate cherry-sweet ripeness of fruit, a hint of herb too, and as you turn the wine around in the mouth, that sweetness gradually turns to savoury as the double-whammy of fresh acidity and everso slightly chewy tannin do their job of putting the fruit into the context of drinking with food; something that this wine is clearly made for.Drink Dates: 2024 - 2029. 93
DW | Plentiful cherry and plum in fairly luscious style, blanketed with sweet vanilla oak and rather forceful alcohol on the nose and, as the wine progresses, spirity finish.Drink Dates: 2024 - 2030. 87