Properly rich. A huge sensual weight of deep black fruit and succulent juiciness. Damson and blackberry fruit, but so much else besides - saline and intense too.

Immediate sense of class, this wine has a grace to it. Fatness and volume, richly full of fruit but also richly tannic. Very full. Superb richness. Wait fifteen or twenty years and serve with a l...(read more)

Spicy, liquorice, bright red and fresh. A firm tonic dryness gives a solid monumental feel; big blocks of stone. Fruit amplifies on finish - long and satisfying.

Not as finished or polished as the Grands Epenots, more backward, a bit firmer, more mineral, and a fresher acidity. But its all round, all slick. A huge wine, essence of rock, and yet easy, supp...(read more)

Fine. This year it really sings again. Intense concentration and a touch of salinity in the tannins. Dense, savoury. Almost (but not) 'too much'. Amazing concentrated length.