Maintaining a rich purple hue. Aromatically true to region: dried herbs, blackcurrants, toasty oak and mint. Ripe and refined, dark chocolate and mixed blue and black berries, poised to blossom. All class23 FEB 2020 Drink 2020–2035
95 points Nick Butler therealreview.com
Includes 5.5% petit verdot, matured for 18 months in French oak (60% new). Counterintuitively, the wine is every bit as approachable now as its lower-priced siblings. The colour is superb, deep but brilliant, the bouquet laden with ripe cassis fruit, the palate threaded with streams of black fruits, firm tannins and high quality oak. Already a great wine, and it has only just begun its journey.
96 points James Halliday winecompanion.com.au 6 October 2016