Stephen Brook | Ripe apples on the nose, which is reticent and inexpressive. It’s quite juicy and up front on the palate, and there’s ample fruit, but it’s not nuanced or complex. A bite of acidity on the mid-palate keeps it moving, but it’s not particularly vigorous or long. Lightly mineral on the finish, which is welcome. | 87

Simon Field | Buckwheat color, softer at the rim; vales of tears asunder. An attractive nose of oatmeal, sour honey, verbena, and even thyme, the spicy element adding interest to the more normal rhyming descriptors of apples and pears, lemon and lime. The palate is equally interesting, the notes of glue/adhesive embedded within a shoal of laurel and even eucalypt, the citric interface once again discreet in the background. Built to build, built to last. | 91

Andrew Jefford | Bright pale gold. Sweet, warm, silky; smooth and softly stated. Almond and honey with a little straw and lavender behind. A disarmingly lovely scent, which just seems to grow in allure with time in the glass. Vivid and mouth-filling, if a little sharper in contour than the aromas suggested it might be. But this is carping: It is bright, vivacious, and concentrated, and full of expansive Marsanne fruits, textured and long, with the aromatics lasting well into the finish, which is soft and glycerous. There is a lovely pulse of warm, sustained, ripe, and fruit-saturated acidity. | 93