Essi Avellan: Deep cherry color. Strong evolved nose with red-berry and herb notes. Strange chemical varnish character. Obvious and unrefined. Old-fashioned and too developed. Heavy with weird aromatics. 10

Simon Field: Deep color and a lifted, volatile, awkward nose. The palate does not improve the situation—quite the reverse. 6

Tom Stevenson: Chemical nose, both first and second bottles. 6.5