Michael Schuster: Ripe blackberry fruit aroma; middleweight wine with a lovely, fresh, natural balance; supple, harmonious, gracefully ripe-fruited and gently minerally Pauillac; complete, classy fourth growth, a particularly successful Duhart. 16.

Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve: A stunning success: succulent, fresh, impeccably fruity and not a trace of those stiff tannins too often seen in this cru. The most accomplished wine from this estate for more than a quarter of a century, if not longer. A Pauillac superstar in the making, with firmer, sharper presence than in previous years, thanks to consistent body, a precisely defined, forceful bouquet and, especially, prodigious tannins. 17.