Michael Schuster: Ripe raspberry to smell, with a faint mineral background; rich, generous, fresh, and very finely tannic; a beautiful understated balance; long, gently sweet and racy but, like Lafleur itself, above all a powerful fragrant presence, you sense perfume-before-fruit-before-structure; and, like the Lafleur, this is effortlessly long, graceful, and absolutely complete, but just on a reduced scale by comparison. A great, quietly aristocratic Pensées. 2025–40. 92–94