Simon Field | A very young-seeming example; regal and dark, inscrutable and plush, black cherry, violets, and soy; slightly unformed in that there are hints of wood and an almost resinous texture. The mid-palate is equally youthful, the spirit dominant, and there is a little burn on the finish. Hard to assess where it may choose to go after today, but everything is in place. Let’s see... | 92

Andrew Jefford | Another thunderously deeply colored wine, and a swirl leaves the glass clad in vermilion streaks. This wine almost seems to glower in the glass, aromatically speaking. It is less resolved and less appealing than many of its peers, but there’s a ton of aromatic muscle here, and with time there will, you feel, be much to enjoy. Meat, stones, bricks of black fruit, yeast, mushrooms, clotted cream... On the palate, it doesn’t disappoint; that force and exuberance you sensed in the aromas comes good, and you can see very clearly on the palate what the nose didn’t yet have the articulacy to suggest, which is that the fruit core here is very fine, lifted, sustained, and long. Outstanding, rich, dense Vintage Port, with generosity seeping from every pore. | 96

Richard Mayson | Opulent if still withdrawn on the nose, some glorious cassis-like fruit intensity underlying; rich, ripe, and fleshy initially, ripe tannins rising on the palate, again dark-chocolate intensity, with ripe, plummy fruit offset by a streak of freshness that contributes to a beautifully rich, broad, yet vibrant tight-knit finish. | 97