Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve: The nose lacks grace, the body lacks development and the tannins lack any refinement to speak of. 13

Michael Schuster: Mid-purple. Warm, ripe, truffle and caramel Merlot to smell; fresh, refined, supple medium-weight with a ripe, almost juicy flavour. Not a powerful wine, but a moderately complex, pure, gentle, graceful, restrained expression of Merlot and of Pomerol. Lovely in its more delicate style. 16