Shy in the nose, red fruit with some gamey notes, oaky frame, funky, needs time to clear up.
In the palate, the wine is rich, med body and med+ intensity, beautiful, red ripe small fruit, berries and cherries, nice acidity and mouthfeel, ends with a long finish.
Outstanding quality, shows great promise, hold rather than drink

Beautiful nose, very clean fruit with great oak framing, nutty, roasted almond, walnut and sweet spices.
Denser in the palate than the nose, spicier, cinnamon sticks, there is a Brett funk too but only adding to the complexity, elegant yet powerful with a long finish.
Outstanding quality, this is a truly magnificent “old world” wine. 95

The wine has a beautiful nose, showing great complexity with ripe red cherries and berries, sweet spices and cinnamon candy.
Tasty palate, big ripe red fruit, ripe tannins, nice acidity, med body and intensity, mouth coating juiciness, ends with a long finish.
Outstanding quality, drink now or hold

Different profile, more spicy than fruity, it also feels a bit tighter, a few flowery notes, sweet overall and decadent.
The palate is also beautiful, balanced, fine tannins, round, ripe red fruit, med to long very tasting finish.
Outstanding quality, drinking now or hold 92+

The wine shows quite dense nose, big fruit red profile, spicy with layers of oak and nutty nuances.
The same profile in the palate, great ripe fruit, nice oak frame, beautiful velvet fine tannins, there is a tiny sweetness overall, mouthwatering tasty wine with long finish.
Outstanding quality, drinking now or hold

Nose is showing med+ intensity, funky and ripe red cherries and berries, nice thin oak layers, ethereal and balanced.
Great palate, ethereal again, fruit upfront, a bit thinner in the midpalate, lacking the strength of the 2013 & 2014, balanced though, med/med+ finish.
Outstanding quality, drinking now

Dense, thick nose filled with red fruits, smoke and earthy notes, forest floor, the oak is tighter but on the whole the wine is more extrovert.
Explosive in the palate with great fruit and oak texture, nice acidity, complex, fine tannins, great structure, hard to resist, utterly balanced, long finish.
Outstanding quality, drinking already but could hold

The nose is much more evolved than the rest, dried fruit, herbs, earthy, sultana raisins, show signs of oxidation and Brett funk, chocolate and coffee and even chocolate with liquer in it.
In the palate, the wine is drying as well, a bit more aggressive, raisin-y, tannic, alcohol more upfront (15.2%), med finish.
Outstanding quality, drink now

Big nose, powerful, full ripe red fruit, raisin, dates, some plastic nuances, damp forest floor and overripe in general.
In the palate, the wine shows again full ripe red fruit, sweet spice, cinnamon, nice oak frame, great structure, chocolate and coffee notes in the med finish. 14.9% alcohol but extremely well hidden.
Outstanding quality, drink now.

The nose is explosive, full ripe red and black fruit, raisin, sultana, dried fruit, full spice showing a nice overall decadent profile.
The palate is quite more aggressive, pronounced acidity, sultana, dried red fruit, dates, chocolate and coffee bits, quite dense, alcohol infused (14.9%) long finish.
Outstanding quality, drink now and for me this is the best of the three Zinfandels

(bottle no 2055)
The nose is explosive, full ripe black fruit, thick with loads of sweet spices and smoke notes.
The palate is equally beautiful, with nice structure, balanced, full fruity and spicy, peppery, so elegant with great acidity and long finish. Outstanding quality, this is a great wine, drinking already but could also hold

The nose shows a few red fruits but mostly loads of Brett funk, earthy notes and iodine. It will clear up after a while. The palate is balanced, spicy, gamey with a long finish. Outstanding quality but drink up

Metodo classico limited edition (bottle 109), 10 years on lees, Pinot Noir and Chardonnay fermented in oak with the malolactic also in oak.
Beautiful stone and citrus fruit, full yeasty notes, nice mouthfeel, med body and higher acidity, tasty and creamy, med + finish and outstanding quality overall