Lovely elegant Champagne, perfect for combination with dinner. Full bodied and well mature with bubblegum, caramel and fruit tones.

Brick colour on the edge. Fruit but also some vegetable tones in the nose. Exceeding expectation fairly rich palate with prune tones but drying tannins in the finish. Drink soon.

Classic nose with Cabernet/ green tones. Pencil shavings and earth. Elegant palate, velvet, with powerful finish and iron tones. Pauillac style.

Surprisingly good and complex wine, typical Cabernet. Attractive ripe fruit in nose and palate but drink it soon, drying tannins in the finish.

Keeps going strong (and held well beside the Lafite 1989). Such a rich wine with cigar tobacco, earth (boers), graphite, iodine and many beautiful fruit tones. Broad palate with great length. Opened 6 hours in advance.

Very similar to my notes last year; such an Elegant and at the same time powerful wine. Lots of ripe fruit tones, graphite, minerals and earth plus a sweet tone in the nose. Beautiful elegance wrapped within its Pauillac character. Ages beautifully.

Orange/ yellow colour. Bread & pudding cake, apricot and tangerine in the nose. Full concentrated palate beautiful balance, excellent acidity. Dried figs and apricot tones. Long finish, great wine but don't wait too long.