Decanted for an hour which allowed it to soften beautifully, it continued to evolve in the glass further, lighter than other vintages I've had. The nose was aromatic and evocative, cinnamon, nutmeg, prune and fig along with some ethyl alcohol notes. Ripe dark cherry, more prune and fig with some leather and a little farmyard, finishes very long and super satisfying, excellent.

Decanted for about 45 mins. This bottle is far less evolved than the last, the colour has more vibrancy and less bricking, leather, some lead pencil and a little smoke, there's still some wafts of blackcurrent. The wine is wonderfully soft with plenty of sweet black current fruit between leather and meaty flavours. This still has some time to go on the strength of this bottle, completey different from the last.

Very full nose, caramel, roasted nuts, a little salt and smoke, its very expressive. Waves of flavours move across your tongue as you drink it, salty, savoury, more caramel and nuts, in fact more of everything and, brandy snaps, the finish lasts for an eternity, I timed 2 mins plus and it's still kept coming back to me long after, wow, really wonderful, only 240 1/2 bottles drawn for this release, very special

Decanted for an hour or so, concentrated and still quite primary with a precise graphite aroma from excellent Cabernet fruit, really well made, great depth of flavours and a long finish, but it didn't have the wow that we expected and was behind the 1995 Musar and 1966 Lynch-Bages for pure pleasure

Even with a couple of hours of decanting this was quite thin and never really got going, there was something there, but it was hard to pick it out

From memory. Decanted an hour, lovely rounded maturing burg, still plenty of time on this but good drinking now

From memory. Quite dark, rich and soft, really lovely drinking now, great long finish

Golden and honeyed but lacking lift and life, good to drink and a thinking wine, but has seen much better days