Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve | This year the wine is more seductive at birth than is the Haut-Brion, with an almost perfect, delicious, velvety texture in the Merlot. A superb wine. | 96

Michael Schuster | A beautifully fragrant nose of sweet fruit, freshness, and fine minerality; rich, elegant, finely firm in tannin, fresh in acidity; a generous mid-weight impression; a lively ripe red- and black-fruit flavor, a lovely sweet core, long and fine to taste, subtle, crisp, mineral; above all graceful and poised, plenty of matter, but with no excess whatsoever—classic claret, that is! finesse, restraint, and lovely length. Delightful. 2025–35+. | 93–94