Michael Schuster: Marked barley sugar and oak nose; excellent balance - rich, concentrated, vigorous; intensely sweet, very honeyed, but elegant, citrusy and vital, too; beautifully sustained and beautifully defined across the palate. Like the Rieussec, seems at this stage to be more linear than its 2001. Another first-rate Suduiraut. 18

Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve: Gorgeous liqueur-steeped, terrifically pure, fabulously long - awesome. 19