Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve: Wonderful harmony, splendid fruit, remarkable expansion on the palate; the flavor potential is more focused than in 2009. 18/19

John Gilman: The 2010 Pichon-Longueville is quite ripe at 13.7% ABV, and includes a higher proportion of Cabernet Sauvignon than usual. However, with most of the Merlot exiled to the second wine, the result is a more precise and focused wine than the Les Tourelles de Longueville, offering up a ripe and pure nose of black cherries, cassis, coffee bean, cigar ash, herb tones, gravelly soils, and a generous base of smoky new oak. On the palate, the wine is deep, full-bodied, and complex and shows a very nice note of youthful Cabernet tobacco leaf, with a fine core of fruit, ripe well-integrated tannins, and excellent length and grip on the chewy and slightly oaky finish. The wine was raised in 80% new wood this year, and it is currently showing just a bit of oak spice and uncovered wood tannins on the back end. I expect that this is just a reflection of its extreme youth and that it will eventually absorb its wood seamlessly. This will be a very long-lived wine and will need plenty of time in the cellar to start to blossom. 2022–75+. 17.5/18

Michael Schuster: Faintly herbal nose, red-fruit dominated! A wine of considerable concentration, lively acidity, and fine, firm tannin. Dark, ripe black and red fruit behind the finely sinewy and muscular tannin. Long, complex, close-knit, hugely satisfying and mouth- and throat- coating, with great, spice-filled length. Grand, long-term Pauillac, sapid, sinewy, complete, and impressive! 2025–50. 18/18.5