Michael Schuster: Light, oak-cedar-dominated nose; supple, fresh, light to medium-weight wine with a light, dry tannin; sweet, elegant, restrained, scented, delicately minerally and persistent. Natural, complete, classic harmonious Cotes St-Emilion. Not big, but very good. 16+

Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve: More discreet at this point than its peers, with refined tannins, style and class, but not quite the mouth-filling volume we were expecting. 17