85% CS, 13% Mer, 2% CF; Mid to deep red-black through to rim.
A classic bouquet of cedarwood, cigar, dust, freshly picked berries, and frozen black fruits with spicy oak elements - cinnamon and mace.
A streamlined entry with fresh, vibrant acid with a lemon edge balanced with a sticky ripe fruit of fresh blackcurrant, morello cherries and a cigar box with a damp clay-like texture. Full-bodied, this is a gusty wine with granular, firm, dense tannins that stick to the palate. Some depth here and quality wine. Excellent wine, I liked the linearity of the wine and the start of layers whilst keeping it streamlined and focussed. Improved immeasurably in the glass.

Mid to deep ruby with brooding nose of graphite, piles of spicy new oak, ripe black and red fruits.
The wine penetrates on the nose and palate.
Full-bodied the wine is big, well concentrated with excellent depth of flavour. The texture is rich with lots of tobacco, cassis, warm roasted berries, orange zest, coconut and toasty oak. There are layers here and the firm, granular tannins support all the fruit well. However, the oak tends to rise at the back palate and needs a little time to assimilate more.

Deep black-red to rim, the bouquet is slightly musty and dank with some vegetal notes and frozen berries (and the smell of freezer insides). A touch of herbs, polished steel, char and ash with feral elements suggests Brett.
Full-bodied, the wine is extracted with a chewy texture and firm, bitter tannins. There is a "pippy" note, oak char and furfurol with a herbaceous note.
Rustic and lacking charm, the wine is foursquare and rather coarse on the finish. Feeling overworked, the length is short and bitter, and rising tannins all suggest some bacterial issues.

Deep- black-red the aromas are intense with ripe blackcurrant, black cherry and oak spices.
Full-bodied, this is a brooding wine with a fabulous silky texture, subtle power, fine layers of fruits and complex with an exemplary structure of filigree tannins.
The core of fruits is cassis, cherry compote, and spice, all balanced by a lemon-edged acidity and some furfurol oak nuances. Returning to wine 2, the oak here is noted but feels more integrated, and there is even more depth. Above, linger some roasted herbs and blackcurrant ice cream, and the finish is long with dense, chewy tannins. The wine has more finesse and elegance and apart from the oak still to integrate has lots of life left.

Mid to deep black-red, the nose is brooding with spicy oak, black fruit, damp clay, dust and lightly roasted herbs.
Mid to full-bodied, the entry is fresh and silky in texture with freshness and a lively acidity making the wine spring along. A long finish with powdery tannins and a core of toasted herbs, smoke, recently defrosted blackcurrants, liquorice and tobacco.
A classy wine with good concentration, not that gutsy in the mid-palate, still needs time. The oak spices leave a drying note on the finish, and the wine lacks some complexity but is delicious all the same!

Mid to deep ruby, the wine is open and attractive with aromas of blackcurrant towards cassis, marinated black cherries, spice and wood char. Feels like a warmer year with a touch of prune and orange peel.
Full-bodied and broad in the mid-palate, filled with ripe black fruits, spices and oak notes. Quite an ambitious, powerful wine with a rich texture and gravelly tannins. The length is persistent, but I find the wine big and bold and not that "Bordeaux-like", almost slightly out of focus. There is a warmth and open-knit about the wine, yet it all holds itself in balance. Tricky to call but perhaps it needs time to show itself and for the structure to build around the fruit core.

Mid to deep black-red; the aromas are ripe with marinated black cherries, cassis and some dried fruits.
The entry is robust and full-bodied with a silken texture and lots of sticky ripe fruits, summer pudding and compote. Some overripe characters suggest a hot to scorching year, whilst the acid is medium to lively, and the mid-palate feels drier and a little extracted with rooibos tea and dried orange peel. A grippy solid tannin, sandpaper dry, the wine is muscular without the charm and complexity of top growth. The finish is long with a marmite note and the alcohol warming. Probably 2003?

Black-red in colour the nose is subtle with complex oak spices and brooding fruit.
The entry is ripe fruited with plenty of blackcurrants and black cherry set against sweet spices and layers of complexity. The wine feels bold and powerful with a gravelly texture and plenty of material in the mid-palate, but quite oak-dominated, almost New world in style.
There is plenty of ripe blackcurrant, prune, casis and blackberries that mix with the sweet spices that linger to an extended length supported by firm, powdery tannins.
An excellant wine that has all the faculties but lacks some real class.

Dull mid garnet to wide orange rim, the bouquet is mature with tertiary fruits, tomato leaf, undergrowth and herbs. As it opens, it reveals some graphite, dry pencil shavings and an odd cardboard note suggesting cork issues. Whilst the palate exhibits some black fruits it seems compromised and suggests a scalped bottle.

Mid ruby to garnet rim; An intensely perfumed, intense nose with black fruits, spicy oak, toast, graphite and damp clay. The palate is less enthusiastic with seeming restraint, showing some age with warm baked fruits, cassis, marinated black plums and dried earth. Gravelly textured, there is good concentration on the mid-palate, but the back palate and finish seem to veer to a more firm, drying, almost bitter note that lingers, and the finish then falls off the edge. It ends with coffee grinds, feral and wet earth, suggesting a touch of bacterial issues elsewise, it showed well.