Stephen Brook: Rich, orangey nose, some crème brûlée, and has the Guiraud opulence that sometimes comes close to blowsiness. Rich, sumptuous, peachy, very plump, and close to flabby, but has enough spice and a piquant raisiny character to keep it lively on the palate. Given the high proportion of Sauvignon here, I would have expected more zip and freshness, but instead this offers opulent fruit. But the acidity is quite low, and I don’t see this aging that well—though with Sauternes one is so often proved wrong. 16

Michael Schuster: Deep gold; a honeyed freshness to smell; a beautiful balance of richness and vigorous acidity; intensely sweet, but no impression of thickness or excess weight; a refined, elegant flavor, racy and complex, with both a lovely purity of sweetness and a fine underlying minerality too, and with excellent aromatic length to follow. A particularly classy and complete Guiraud, most enticing already, decades of pleasure to come. 17.5