Nicolas Belfrage: Medium depth, verging on opaque. Lively fruit and mushroom driving the nose. Concentrated, sweet, ripe fruit on the palate, with correct tannin and acid levels and considerable complexity of flavor—licorice, herbs, dried fruit. Drink from 2015+. 17

Andrew Jefford: Very deep black-red shading to deep garnet. Sweet, complex, beguiling, very lovely scents that seem to combine rich cherry fruits and a hint of exotic citrus with perfume-grass complexities and warm black fruits. A superb aromatic profile here. On the palate, it is (as usual) much, much tougher than the aromas suggested, with axe-waving acidity and granite-cliff tannins. It is, thus, a very stark wine—a wine like a castle glimpsed in a flash of lightning, and I find this elemental quality quite hard going (without food). Much higher acidity here than in many of its peers. A fine wine in an uncompromising style, but a classic grandee, too. Match it with food, and you may find a whole world opening up... 17

Franco Ziliani: Intense deep ruby color. Solid and rich fruity and fleshy bouquet with masses of plum, red cherries, raspberries, blackcurrant, aromatic herbs, mint, licorice, and leather notes, very rich and intense. On the palate, less broad and grand than expected, with a cutting acidity and some bitter notes on the finish, maybe because the wine is very young. Will improve. 16.5