Simon Field | Deep episcopal hue, textured, broad, and heady. The tannins are domineering, powerful, long, and unresolved. Iodine, peat, incense, and smoke—a plethora of promise, all unresolved, as one would expect, all bristling with raw, muscular potential. | 88

Andrew Jefford | Very dense, deep black-purple core out to a purple rim; lots of color clinging to the glass. Lively, fresh, sweetly plummy, plump and beckoning aromas, though the ripeness does seem out at the limit. There’s some fig in here, too. This is another super-sweet, fig-and-date Vintage Port, which will be held in time by very fine, grasping, and sustaining tannins, an echo of 2003. But the sweetness of cast will always be evident. | 90

Richard Mayson | Very deep opaque and inky in color. Closed on the nose, dark-chocolate intensity, tight-knit with underlying, seamless, ripe, dusky fruit. Ripe and fleshy, a touch of dark chocolate and tar, with firm, ripe tannins piling up onto a bittersweet finish that shows freshness and verve. | 96