Simon Field | Powerful, muscular, and tightly-wound, intimations of dark fruit shrouded by peppery tannins, extraction somewhat in the ascendant. The spectrum of flavor is somewhat obscured by the rigors of design and a reductive inclination, but all the elements point to a more than satisfactory evolution. | 88

Andrew Jefford | A much more translucent wine after our dark Côtes du Roussillon (2016); higher altitude? Very pure fruit scents, too, compared to that wine’s savory, stony appeal. Pure plum and black cherry, with some chocolate raisin for sweetness, lifted and graceful. On the palate, too, you would guess that this is very much a wine of altitude (and if so, it underlines just what an important parameter this is): graceful, fine-sewn, elegant, pure-fruited, singing, and lyrical, yet not in any way deficient in tannin, with almost juicy fresh acidity and in fact plenty of “mineral” character of its own, too. This is a terrific wine, underlining the aesthetic width of which Grenache is clearly capable. | 92

David Williams | A waft of red and black fruit—so much juicily abundant Grenache fruit, but made into something more than the merely everyday with a crushed-rock, mineral edge. Intensity tempered by freshness (not the same thing as acidity), lots of character; power and drinkability. | 92