Tim Atkin | Sweet and a little grassy on the nose. Some Graciano or Maturana Tinta? Lots of mocha oak, some balancing acidity, ripe, dense, and late picked. Good wine, if firm, with a slightly angular finish. Needs time. | 93

Simon Field | Bold squid-ink black; dense and foreboding; oaky nose of graphite, pencil shavings, and cedar; expensive inclinations, with plenty of dark fruit in support. The palate has a beautiful pashmina texture, the foreboding in recession, the fruit character suddenly gleaming with resplendent focus and exciting potential. Balletic and aérian, a fascinating example. La force tranquille! | 94

Andrew Jefford | Dark, dense, saturated black-purple still, and impenetrably opaque; a black-purple rim. Very fine aromatics here, and classical, too: soft, tender, plum-damson fruits, with vanilla and tobacco-leaf complexities. Serene, rewarding, seductive. Can’t wait to sip. There’s great weight, depth, and density of blackcurrant fruit on the palate: We’re suddenly in a different dimension from every other wine thus far, and this certainly needs more time to show at its best. It’s had oak, but the fact that the fruit provides all the energy and carriage in the wine bodes well. The tannins, in fact, are relatively soft and submissive. Excellent, pure, long, expressive: Worth seeking out, and a limpid expression of great vineyards. | 95