Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve: An appreciated classic expression, tightly wound, delicate tannins, still a bit firm and not completely integrated. 17.5

Michael Schuster: Fresh ripe fruit; elegant middleweight in a firmer style, but with no excess of acidity or tannin; freshly ripe to taste, with clear gravel aromas, firm but not coarse, long in the mouth, and with good, well-defined length. Fresh, aromatic claret, a perfect expression of fine Médoc, and a typically classy bottle of refined pauillac in prospect. another wine where one feels this is akin to 2008 with more mid-palate complexity and structure. 2022–32+. 17