Deep, dark red colour, virile aromas of punchy red fruit, cherries currant and plum, rivulets of spicey vanillan oak, menthol and dark soily, crushed leafy elements. Mount Ida is nothing if not well figured with long fruit and gritty, hazelnutty, chocolatey tannins. It finishes lingering and with poise, closing to aftertastes of coffee, warmly liqueured maraschino and currant.

A sleek, polished palate goes into overdrive with a plethora of plum, quince and saturated fruit characters. Merlot à la mode.

It's evocative salmon pink colour and pulchritudinous perfume belies a very smart wine with the structure of a complex claret and restorative qualities of Sancerre.

Amenable acids and tenacious tannins within a covenant of complaisant Malibu oak and congealed cherry/ brambleberry/ carob extracts.

Piety gets down and dirty, this is a hedonist's delight, make no mistake, you won't be puckering around searching for the fruit. Opulent but very, very well heeled indeed, stimulating, refreshing and delicious.

Aromas of cherry and pepper, crushed leaf and plum. Fruit driven yet dry to the palate, cinammon and licorice, cocoa and winegum. Strength, effusiveness and warmth, a long seamless palate, tannins cling to the cool characters of the high country fruit, she disappears down the throat, accompanied by integrated oak to a long, graceful finish.

Sweet black berry aromas with a wisp of rich oak and perfumes of cassis. On the tongue she unravels her yarn of blackberry, currant and leaf, a generous bosom of plump, fleshy fruits, sweet ham and bouquet garni. A well constructed, satisfying class of cabernet, she closes to lingering impressions of velvety purple fruit, cigarbox and spice.

The weight of fruit here is just so intense, hefty with bramble and black currants, cigarbox and savoury spice, remarkable balance. Bouquets of mulberry and blackberry, chocolate, now bitter, now sweet, stewed plum and violets, fully integrated, profound French oak with a touch of nutmeg, vanillan and cedar.

Get your Maglieris while they're young and you'll be looking down the palate of some sweet adolescent Merlot fruit, all berries and cherry and mint. Give her time to grow old and you'll be consoled by the most genteel oak, soothing compotes of plum, and soft, powdery tannins.