Wismer-Parke is – as usual – a lovely, slightly meaty or gamey thing with tons of classy red and black fruit. Add a little touch of rusticity that ennobles it: this is always a complex wine, never a facile one, rich and saline with a deft edge of class. The colour of this wine dances somewhere between Wismer-Parke’s Wild West End and Hanck, yet this is a wine that's all its own. Perfumed. Elegant. Redolent with red fruits on the nose and in the mouth: classy and elegant. Lots of length on the palate: the firm and deliciously savoury compactness conceals a stony minerality as clear as if it was plucked from a mountain stream. A wine to watch! Perhaps aging nearly as long as both Hanck and Wismer-Parke’s very own Wild West End… Wismer-Parke is a complete, strong-fruited, ageable wine that merits serious contemplation.

A word from Mary: Earthy rhubarb nose. Bright mid-palate fruit and long finish.

Drinking prime: 2027 – 2034

Best fruit window: 2028 – 2031

Cases produced: 146