Michael Schuster: Pale gold; refined, fresh, limestone-mineral nose; beautifully balanced, rich, and elegant wine; very sweet, but not excessively so; a fine vitality, with a lovely impression of freshness behind the high level of sugar; very mineral, very botrytis-complex, very long, linear, harmonious, and complete. A superb example of both Coutet and of Barsac. Probably finer than its 2001. 2016–35+. 18/19+

Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve: Broad, generous, long, quite sweet. The wine is complete. For the time being, it is too rich and too sweet for it to show all the nuances of its origins, but it clearly has a great future ahead. 18