Dense purple in the glass. Blueberry, white pepper, dark slate and violets on the nose. Enters the palate with an explosion of purple fruits and exotic spices: musk, violets, cola, and anise all meld with aplomb and class whilst sandy tannins bring tension and focus to the flow. Great length and precision. It’s an impressive wine in its youth and will no doubt open further in time.

An exotic thing, with plenty of pepper and five spice, blue and black fruit, baked raspberry pie, iodine, with a dried flower perfume. It’s medium-bodied, quite juicy in the blue and black fruit department, blackcurrant jubes, almost, a grainy grip to tannin, spicy and peppery, with rusty tannin and crisp cranberry acid crunch on a finish of good length. Plenty of energy here, with some sappy green notes, which add rather than detract. It’s quite intense as at now, but should improve with a little bottle age. Very good.

The sort of compellingly energetic wine that I could drink every night. The jubey flirt of grenache's orange pastille and kirsch melds with bergamot, violet and pulpy blue fruits care of the shiraz. A waft of spice and a raft of gritty tannins, left unmanicured for the better, shifting to the side of savoury over sweet. Imminent appeal.