Deep garnet with a touch of purple, the 2010 Shiraz The Armagh offers a beautiful black fruit core, yielding notes of crushed blackberries and blueberries, with an undercurrent of coffee and spice box, plus touches of earth and raw meat. Full-bodied and built like a brick house, it has concentrated, very youthful fruit that reveals many layers in the long, long finish.

The 2010 Shiraz The Armagh was bottled 50% under stelvin and 50% under cork. This bottle is Stelvin. It is tight, amazing and fresh! It has all the pastrami and peppercorn, but it has light and freshness too. This is impossibly fresh and delicious. What a vineyard. There is a stylistic shift here, moving from barriques to hogsheads, more French oak. It has 14.6% alcohol and was matured for 14 months in 67% French and 33% American 330-liter hogsheads, 70% new oak and 30% one year old. So good. This is alive.

Same vineyard and similar winemaking as the 2018 but bigger fermenters. Filtered. Deep garnet. That same cherry fruit as on the 2018 but if anything richer and spicier. Tannins seem firmer and the acidity less well integrated than in the 2018. Still has masses of fruit. Smooth, deep caressing. (JH)

Cork closure. Dark crimson. Well integrated and fresh with lively minty layers. Dry end but serious ingredients. I wouldn't pay the going rate, I fear, but it's good wine. (JR)