Michael Schuster: Black-fruit ripe; full, fresh, firmly tannic, a fine Pauillac balance; rich without being fat, a gentle fleshiness, sweetly, but freshly ripe cassis fruit and gravel aromas; juicy and succulent, very fine-textured dry tannins, a gently racy complexity, long and sapid across the palate, and with very fine aromatic length alongside the fruit persistence. First-rate, fine, long-term Lynch- Bages. 2028–46. 92–94

Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve: Very dense, with an overpowering tannin that thickens it a bit but with remarkable reserves for the aging in barrels to come. 96