Nicolas Belfrage: Medium depth. Hints at floral character on the nose. Has the regulation sweet Porty finish but some drying tannins. Acidity gives it balance, finishes medium long, slightly tough. Drink from 2018. 88

Bruno Besa: Deep garnet to tawny. Open, mature blackfruit nose, with leather and tobacco and hints of smoked red meat. Full body with rich, mature prune-juice fruit and a long clean finish. Rich and complex Monforte Nebbiolo. 90

Andrew Jefford: Deep black-red. A lovely and very balanced nose, with some sweet floral charm, some beautifully ripened fruit notes, some soft tobaccoey secondary complexities: wonderful engagement and poise (some oak, but works very well). Rich, mouth-filling, commanding, and detailed: splendidly polyphenolic, but all of that matière is bonded to top-quality fruit materials. Long, almost craggy (for 2011), allusive, poised, and energetic: another sensationally good 2011. The poised perfumed quality persists to the very end of the palate. Bravo! Whoever has made this has taken the vintage truly as far as it can go in this vineyard, and not in any sense been content with the easy ride the vintage seemed to offer. Totally arresting, demanding, commanding wine. 96