Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve | Strong color, enveloping, firm tannin, if slightly simpler in style than some of its neighbors; a great future, a true St-Estèphe. | 94

Michael Schuster | Ripe and fresh, floral and fine to smell; rich but elegant, fresh but unobtrusive in acidity, with a particularly fine tannin, a really lovely 2018 balance; fresh strawberry and cassis fruit flavor, long and easy and effortless to taste in the mold of the best 2018s, with almost no perceptible impression of tannin, nicely sustained, sweet at heart, subtly juicy, and with a fine, gentle, fruit-fragrant aftertaste. A beautifully textured, complete Lafon-Rochet. 2026–40. | 91–93+