Essi Avellan: Deep orange-hued cherry color. Lovely toasty coffee nose, highly prominent and characterful. Full, creamy, rich, and concentrated, with mature autolysis aromatics. Fully evolved and blooming, with no signs of tiring. Blockbuster style, and as toasty and rich as it gets. 19.5

Simon Field: Magnifi cent evolved aromas of hazelnut, fig, mushroom, and gunpowder, all harmoniously deferential to the reputation of the vintage, with its modest acidity and fulsome charms. A wonderful, near-mature rosé of no little distinction. 19

Tom Stevenson: Mesmerizing! Beautiful, very pale salmon color, beguilingly mellow fruit aroma, with amazing, slowly evolved, mellow, toasty notes pervading every nook and cranny. 19