Essi Avellan | Deep golden color. Refined yet pronounced nose, showing positive development. Soft, fruit-forward, spicy characters. Charred, toasty, and woody notes are amplified on the rich but fresh and balanced palate. Lovely transparency of fruitiness and plenty of expression. Long, juicy, vinous finish. At a lovely drinking age. | 93

Simon Field | Buckwheat color; a Gainsborough landscape, vanishingly small bubbles, refining themselves out of existence; and for all the bucolic grandeur of such a prospect, the reality is less panoramic, more pinched; Gala apples, mirabelle plum, even a whiff of sulfur, and a strangely workmanlike palate, which manages to be both pinched and flabby; more Rawlinson than Gainsborough, as it turns out. | 85

Anthony Rose | Pale-gold in color; now starting to show some evolved, nutty/leesy notes in the aromas, with a hint of peachy fruit, this is quite soft on the palate, showing a nice ripe peachiness combining with a gentle nuttiness, all supported by a slightly sharp blade of acidity, for a distinctly dry finish, which is most likely the product of the vintage. | 89