Stephen Browett: Medium-deep color. Very good nose, full, serious, and complex. Far more density than anything else in its flight. Black fruit, ripe but structured. Good intensity and length. A serious wine that is a class apart from anything else here. Despite being served first in the flight, this wine was an easy winner and is without doubt the Pomerol of the vintage after Pétrus. 16

Michael Schuster: Dark, narrow-rimmed purple; medium-full wine, very marked (unusually for Denis Durantou) by its new oak astringency; a fine, scented, delicate fruit, but I wonder if there is enough of it to balance the burden of astringency that there is here from the new wood? Ten years minimum required, and eventual harmony in question. 16?