CHÂTEAU GUIRAUD

This is still really tight, with racy floral and green plum edges along the core flavors of white peach, mirabelle plum, melon and green fig, but this has stunning length, with a rapier of minerality that matches the sweetness step for step on the long, quinineinfused finish. Drinking range: 2018 - 2038 Rating: 96 James Molesworth, The Wine Spectator (Jan 2016)

(65% semillon and 35% sauvignon blanc): Medium yellow-gold. Exotic aromas of honeyed apricot, pineapple and crystallized ginger are complicated by marmalade-y botrytis, a rarity in 2013, in which the noble rot is usually fresher and more lemony. Very sweet and suave on entry, then intensely flavored in the middle, with an almost bitter botrytis character to the rich tropical fruit flavors. This has terrific concentration of fruit but is not hugely acidic and comes across as a little foursquare presently. It's certainly impressively dense and long on the back. This is Guiraud's third vintage to be organic-certified; a total of five passages were undertaken, beginning on September 26 and finishing on October 24. Rating: 90-92 Ian d'Agata - Stephen Tanzer website

The fruit mix is sweet the palate fleshy and ripe fruited. Under the candied peel, the apricot, the orange marmalade tangerine refreshes and gives a slightly lighter feel at the back. The finish though us lush rich and ripe with a lovely depth of flavour on the fleshy finish. 2020-30. Rating: 89-92 Derek Smedley MW, www.dereksmedleymw.co.uk