Medium, medium-plus cherry-red colour. Candied red fruit on the nose, red cherry predominates but it’s quite primary still. The palate is medium concentrated with very good acidity and almost absent tannins. Lovely balance to this wine, it’s sweet and tasty with good but not exciting length. A very worthy and enjoyable villages.

Darker than the 2000 but with a watery rim. The nose also has a black stance, slightly spicy too. Soft on the palate with smooth, sweet and quite dense (for a villages) fruit – yet I have the feeling that there’s a trace of dilution – not sure why. The finish is satisfying and the tannin and acidity are first rate though there’s a trace woody-ness. Certainly drinking now, but much more structure than 2000. A wine that I would buy again.