A very contemporary, richly fruited and opulent Grange that is already very smooth and approachable. ItÕs very ripe and perfumed, scented with meaty aromas of cassis, blackberries, dates and figs knit with sweet, fine-grained mocha-like oak. Long, sweetly flavoured and backed by gamey complexity, it drips with intense, sumptuous fruit handsomely integrated with oak and polished, pliant tannins. With time it should more closely resemble the classical Grange benchmark.

Supremely well made and uber-refined, this is a classic Grange of density, balance and elegance. ItÕs wonderfully vital and pure, with a deeply ripened bouquet of blackberries, dark plums and cassis that soaks up its sweet cedar/chocolate/vanilla oak, becoming more fiery and briary with aeration. It steadily reveals nuances of exotic spices, floral perfume and a hint of meatiness. Long and luxuriant, with deep tightly knit and handsomely oaked layers of sour-edged dark plum and berry flavour, itÕs supported by a fine chalkiness, finishes with a brightly lit acidity and is already alarmingly drinkable for a wine whose best years are several decades away.

A strong second tier Grange whose wild, briary and meaty scents of cassis, dark plums, treacle and roasting meat juices overlie notes of soy, smoke and mineral. Profoundly ripened, itÕs powerful and concentrated, with assertive, fiery dark berry and plum-like fruit, cedary oak and mineral nuances underpinned by a firm, sinewy backbone. Finishing long and meaty, itÕs very complete and entire, and just needs a decade or to settle.

Smooth and polished, this earlier-drinking Grange unfolds a faintly meaty, cigarboxy bouquet of blackberries, dark plums, cassis and briar with charry, cedary undertones of smoke and leather. ItÕs long and restrained, already showing some charming development, with a finer, more elegant weight of fruit framed by fine, gravelly tannins. Certainly a reflection of its cooler vintage, itÕs a lighter, more textural Grange of pleasing complexity and balance.