98 points, Chris Kissack for Winedoctor.com: "A dark, brooding and rather withdrawn nose compared to La Mission, hinting at dark and savoury fruits, with layers of grilled blackcurrant, liquorice and black pepper, as well as a fragrant Cabernet freshness, infused with powdered chalk and other new oak barrel notes. The palate has just beautiful proportions, showing a core of softly polished dark fruits at the very beginning, with a fresh and linear frame to it, understated and unprepossessing at first, but in the midpalate it slowly builds to reveal layers of dark fruits, blackcurrant, liquorice, black olive, leather and toast, with a correspondingly confident structure increasingly making its presence known, but always maintaining a sense of balance and freshness, before we get to a flourish of energy and charged tannic grip through the middle. A very long finish here. More introverted than La Mission, but clearly with more substance to it, this has stunning potential. The blend is 42.8% Merlot, 39.7% Cabernet Sauvignon, 17.5% Cabernet Franc and the alcohol level is 15%, both in terms of analysis and what is on the label." (12/2022)