Tim Atkin: Saturated purple color; very concentrated. The biggest wine of the tasting: huge! Dense, blocky, concentrated—but who would drink this, apart from the staff of The Wine Advocate? Very tannic, very extracted, chewy. 15.5

Gerard Basset: Extremely opaque, dark, black-ink color, with almost no rim variation; medium-deep nose. Black fruit: blackberry and damson. Rich and round. Medium-long finish. 16

Anthony Rose: Very dark, dense color; masses of coconut oak spice and blackberry-pastille sweetness on the nose, which verges on the Porty and overalcoholic. Better on the palate, but it’s still big, rich, immense. Blackberry sweet and coconutty, with huge, chunky, monster tannins. To me, this is a caricature, but I recognize that some might actually enjoy this level of sweetness, oak, and alcohol. Good luck to them! 15