JM 1ST APPROACH

This blend of local vineyards, including Aberfeldy, has produced a wine with both regional and varietal definition. The wine has bright magenta colour, and aromas and flavours of red-berry conserve, spiciness and the complexity given by 18 months American-oak maturation. The palate is full and soft in front and middle, with flavour of small berry fruit and again the oak complimenting the fruit. The finish is medium firm with tannins coming from both fruit and oak. The wine has not been cold stabilized and so may form a harmless crystalline deposit in the bottle necessitating decanting before serving.

This wine has power and finesse which makes it both approachable now and worth keeping for up to 10 years in good conditions. Slippery smooth and delicious. Packed with plummy, vanillin, minty flavour and then controlled and dry through the finish. Not a hair out of place. Hints of complex earthiness in the background - flavours that should perform very well as the wine matures. oergeous red wine drinking. "I simply can't think of another wine that matches beauty and power in the same way, that offers up immensely rich fruit, yet doesn't smash it with too much oak or scar it with too much tannin. The texture of this wine is like velvet - an overused phrase - but this time it's true. The flavours wash over your tongue, they caress your palate and linger long after you've swallowed. And those flavours? Sweet mint leaves, lush blackberry, finely focused blackcurrants rubbed with eucalyptus oil, all this in a cocoon of coconut and chocolate cream.