AJ | This, folks, is black. One look and you'd guess PX ... but it isn't. A swirl leaves the sides of the glass stained-glass yellow. Oddly enough the aromas aren't in the least Moscatel-like; they smell of engine oil and lubricating essences. Maybe even Brylcreem. Or, to be more positive, of long-buried, earth-dampened spices. But not particularly of grapes. Treacly essence on the palate. Drink and wonder ... as a human being; but I'm never wholly convinced that there is much here for wine lovers. Drink Dates: 2025 - 2030. 88
SF | Dense saturnine colouring, plenty of legs in the glass, a rich saccharine cloy, toffee apple, a lot of sweetness, cloying just a little and , despite its inherent qualitative precursors, maybe just a little out of kilter when one compaes the amalgam of acidity and sugar? Drink Dates: 2025 - 2040. 89
RM | deep, opaque black mahogany with obvious viscosity; there's something extraordinarily wild and lifted here with this huge intensity and powerful concentration; the textural richness is remarkable, indescribably gorgeous and intense mid-palate, singed, unctuous with syrup of figs and black olive concentration on a bitter-sweet finish. This is a wine to respect, sip occasionally, sit up in awe but it is not one that I want to return to regularly. Drink Dates: 2025 - 2040. 95