Pale/medium straw. Quite grassy, green fruit, touch of melon. Medium/full bodied, nice weight, vibrant contrasting acidity, good length finish but a touch one dimensional. **1/2

Corked

Deep garnet core, wide mahogany rim. Rich, spicy nose, touch of christmas cake, vestiges of red fruit. Medium bodied, harmonious, soft tannins, touch of cedar, decent length finish. Delicious, fully mature. ****

Medium/deep garnet/ruby core, narrow pale rim. Deep, dark fruit, soil. Medium/full bodied, black fruit, quite firm tannins somewhat dominate the finish but still pretty decent. ***

Deep garnet core. Lovely lightly gravelly mineral nose, cool blackcurrant fruit. Medium bodied, firm but very fine tannins, attractive savoury dark fruits, mineral notes, very good length finish. Excellent and drinking quite well ****

Deep ruby/garnet. Cool and minerally nose, cedar. Medium bodied, dark, cedar fruit, tannins a touch brusque on the good length finish. Very good though ***1/2.

Medium garnet/mahogany core, wide pale mahogany rim. Nose very earthy, dusty, touch of "wet dog". Medium bodied, quite dry and lean, totally fruitless, drinkable but touch tired and uninteresting. *

Deep ruby, narrow pale rim. Lactic notes dominate the nose, some underlying, creamy red and black berry fruit. Slightly better on the palate, medium/full bodied, more black fruited, still some milky notes, some unresolved tannin. N0t sure about this. **?

Sharp, bovrilly nose. Soy, spice. Something not quite right here NR

Another dusty, earthy, slightly dirty nose but for me not corked. Indeed the palate is somewhat better, showing some lean dark fruit and a touch of gravelly minerality on the slightly sandy finish. OK **1/2

Slightly dusty/earthy even green nose, but also some attractive cedary red fruit. Medium bodied, harmonious, soft tannins, attractive cedary red fruit, balanced acidity, perhaps falls away a tad on the finish but very good. ***

Deep garnet core, pale garnet rim. Attractive, sweet red-fruited nose, red fruit, Christmas Cake, spice. Medium/full bodied, rich fruit, soft tannins, balanced though without obvious acidity, harmonious, long. Lovely ****1/2.