Essi Avellan: Medium-deep lemon. Soft, creamy, youthfully floral nose, with confectionary notes. Oak comes through especially on the palate as wood, with its sweet vanilla tone and lightly oxidative character. Firm and rich, with length, but oak-dominant. 15

Simon Field: A nose of gunflint and peach-kernel gives way to a very peachy ripe palate, which surprises with its gentle seduction, its dosage perhaps overwhelming the ensemble a little. 13.5

Tom Stevenson: Oaked Chardonnay and very slightly oxidative on the finish. I would prefer a more reductive style for this particular wine, but there is still a juiciness to the fruit and the oxidativeness is entirely stylistic, not bordering on faulty or even just the negative. 16