Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve | Magnificent aromatic intensity and imposing matter—a great start in life for a larger- than-life Mouton. | 98

Michael Schuster | Black-red; that very individual, slightly torrefied character that comes from the soil, blackberry-ripe sweetness to smell; rich, concentrated, fresh, firmly but very fine-textured in tannin; a beautiful blackcurrant-sweet core flavor, long and juicy and even, but also tight and complex and long across the palate, and with a beautifully long, fruit-fragrant finish. Yet another splendid, flattering Mouton, if without the trame, the complexity, of the 2016. 2035–60+. | 95–97