Andrew Jefford | Deep, dark black-red. Sweet and sustained, with better purity than many of its peers, but it lacks fruit freshness and focus: there’s a generalized black-cherry appeal here. Smoothly fruited on the palate, with pure-drawn plum and black cherry; lively and fresh. An excellent effort, and the purity of fruit will help draw it through time. It doesn’t, though, have the ripeness you’d hope for in a great vintage, so it can only ever be a mid-term proposition. It’s a little cooler in style, for example, than Petit Village. 2018–24. | 90

Michael Schuster | Soft and plummy ripe-fruit Merlot to smell; medium-full, lively in acidity, quite firm in tannin; fresh and crisp in flavor, somewhat hemmed in by its dry tannin texture, with a nice, crisp, red-fruit persistence. For Pomerol, this is an austere interpretation, good wine, but essentially lacking the seductive fat and flesh that should be part of attractive Pomerol, and just a bit too dry and tannic for the available fruit. 2024–34+. | 89