New wine, new year. A strong sense of sulphides and mineral water. And I kind of like that here; there is some fruit flavour to back it up. I’ll get past the main quibble quickly, and that is that flavour doesn’t seem to carry very far, so far, and acid scores the palate. What we have is a wine of mostly lovely texture, but very austere feel. Lean but on the cusp of mean – I like wines on the edge though, for the most part. It has that strong sense of winemaking play that brings about flint and mineral stuff, and in cahoots is a kind of lemon-peach iced tea character running gently underneath – that barely there fruit is a treat, which I wish I saw more of in the wine. There’s a sense of pedigree here, no doubt. Take your time.

93+ points, The Wine Front (August 2019)

Hand-picked, whole-bunch pressed, fermented in French oak barrels with limited stirring. The bouquet and palate send the same message of perfectly captured white stone fruits, then apple and grapefruit. An irresistible wine with spectacular length.

98 Points, James Halliday, November 2019. Top 100 Wines of 2019.