Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve | The wine benefited from great Merlots not used for the first wine, and while keeping a considerable finesse it emerges with more body that in the past in elegant years. | 95

Michael Schuster | Deep but not inky; fine, ripe, red-fruit, gently gravelly nose; rich, fresh, finely tannic, beautifully constituted; ripe, subtle, long across the palate, linear, refined, and minerally; classic fine claret proportions and flavor, with a lovely overall fragrance; effortlessly, beautifully fine, transparent Margaux. A quite remarkable second wine. 2026–46. | 93–94