Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve | Intense color, strong presence of wood, but that does not hide the monumental structure —all power, no aggression. Wait, obviously. | 96

Michael Schuster | Black-red; spicy, dense, gravelly to smell; full and lively and firmly, finely tannic, a very nicely balanced Pauillac constitution, with an appetizingly defining fresh acidity; richly fruited at its core, long and complex to taste, a gentle gravel background of flavor, both juicy and refined at once; a clear Pauillac sinew, with those succulently sapid, deliciously chewy tannins neither hard nor rigid—matter without excess, and beautiful length. A fine, satisfying, complete, long-term, gently muscular, and classic Pauillac beauty. 2030–50+. | 93–94+