While there are stylistic similarities with the previous vintage, this is a prettier and if anything, more delicate expression. Yet, there is ample engine room power here. It’s so bright and alive with energy from the first take on the nose through to the perfectly balanced and weighted medium bodied palate. Love the powdery tannins and super-fine-grained oak use. “Jack” is today quite different to early vintages and in many ways mirrors where modern winemaking is taking our wines. I love it.

Mike Bennie: From a prized single vineyard and a wine that has been made for 51 consecutive vintages. Very good. This is an excellent release, full of tension and structure, charismatic perfume, dark fruit, well-judged seasoning, a terrific fine tannin profile and a general sense of elegance and restraint. It feels potent yet medium weight, svelte and tense, tannins show authority but are succulent and refreshing, the darker fruits, plum and blackcurrant, find keen friends in woody spices, new leather, mahogany-like oak elements and a swathe of wild herbs, mint included. It's a stellar wine, feels fancy from first approach and is destined for an outstanding cellaring life.