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.