Fresh red berries and a fairly dense, but very moorish palette of red fruit and subtle oak with a spicy tannin finish.

A nice smoky nose cutting through blue fruit, violets and some classic Greenock Creek oak treatment. The palette is bright and vibrant with a lively and chewy acidity and some smooth, silky tannins.

A dark and rich nose with fired fruits and spicy oak. The palette is big, with purple fruits and a silky mouthfeel.

This is a well made wine, although not quite to my taste, with an earthy almost compost nose coupes with black fruits and lifted spices. The palette is textural, with fine tannins, chocolate and a very fresh mid-palette.

A perfumed nose of pure, black fruit with a chocolatey palette with liquorice and bright black cherry finishing with a silky mouthfeel.

This blockbuster had been open for a good day or so when we tasted it. The nose is tar, bitumen, liquorice and blackberry with distinctive American oak. The palette is meaty and chewy, but still with a silky texture that seem to intensify the black fruits. The tannins come on at the finish and go for quite a while.