Ripe apple start-to-finish with lots of spice. Well textured with some nice edge and finesse. Good length, drinking nicely now with little age coming through.

Nice floral start with massive amounts of tropical fruit and new oak spice on nose and palate. Certainly a wine with good concentration, but I find this a little too fat, ripe and hot for my preferences. Well made and I can understand why some like this.

Open, decanted 30 minutes before serving. Also extremely ripe and tropical with mango and roasted nuts coming through. Too much heat on finish. Not a type of wine I really enjoy. 45% Roussanne, 26% Chardonnay, 14% Petite Manseng, 10% Viognier and 5% Marsanne.

Extremely ripe black fruit aromas with lots of protruding new oak for now. Ripe and forward fruit flavors as well to start, but followed by a hollowness in the middle I didn't particularly find appealing.

Ripe black and red cherry with both savory and sweet spice throughout. Moderate depth. 14.6% alcohol, but this retains very fine balance and persistence through to the finish. I've never of this wine before, am told this is the first vintage. Well done.

Popped and poured, then consumed over a couple of hours. Ripe black cherry and plum, liqueur, cloves, allspice, black pepper, and background floral hints. Same flavor profile. Good structure and balance, particularly once open 15-30 minutes. Best taste was the last.

Dense black fruit aromas and flavors with modest level of maturity I find engaging. Baking spice hints throughout. At a very good place now, aging slowly and elegantly.

Open, decanted an hour+ before tasting. Plum and wild blackberry aromas with liqueur hints, dark chocolate, espresso and faint baking spice. Identical flavor profile with very good depth and balance. I really like the structure and how the energy of mountain fruit comes through. My WOTN.

Open several hours before serving. Reductive start that never really went away. Extremely ripe beyond the level I find enjoyable. I'm rarely a big Alban fan, and the fact that this bottle was on several airline flights, traveling 2000 miles in the past week surely did not help.