For reports and full tasting notes, go toTim Atkin MW's website.

This is quite ripe though still fresh and bright with intensely spicy aromas of red berry and cherry liqueur. There is a seductively silky texture to the middle weight and delicious flavors that possess excellent depth as well as seriously impressive persistence. As with many wines in the range in 2010, the phenolically mature tannins possess a very fine grain and while firm, they are already well-integrated. The overall impression of this lovely effort is one of balance and harmony. In a word, terrific.

Real class bounds out of the glass here. You get the impression that you could do virtually anything in the cellar and this would still shine. Lovely freshness yet concentration and subtlety too. Great stuff! Sinewy. (JR)