Bruno Besa | Ruby to garnet. Intense, open, complex black and red fruits, with a mature, earthy character yet elegant, with spices and road tar-like complexity. Medium- to full-bodied, with a clean red-fruit character, lively and long. | 91

Andrew Jefford | Deep, clear black-red. Warm scents of ripe red fruits, nuts, cream, and underbrush: satisfying, enticing, and complex. Ample ripeness here, but nothing too baroque or overly gilded. Rich, deep, complex, forthright, and exuberant: an intensely flavored and richly textured wine that cries out for a little more cellar time. Packed with pleasure; crowd-pleasing yet at the same time intricate and fine. | 94

Anthony Rose | Deepish youthful color; a note of spicy vanillin oak on the nose; attractively sweetly ripe and medium concentrated dark fruits, all the while brushed by spicy oak, with firmish tannins and fresh acidity bringing up the rear in a friendly, approachable international style, whose oak treatment just distracts a tad from its potential for complexity. | 90