Michel Bettane: Great tobacco aromas; full-scale body and texture for Léognan, with a sumptuously velvety texture. The harvest was so perfectly ripe, nobody (I hope) will object to the high level of alcohol. A very great wine and a benchmark 2008 18.5

Thierry Desseauve: Bright and deep color; precise aromatic definition; svelte and silky wine; length and freshness, subtlety, and persistence. Remarkable 17.5

Michael Schuster: Ripe-fruited nose; firm and vital to taste, concentrated fruit, with a stillmarked oak-dry tannin; quite juicy and with good fruit persistence but also chewy, so time required to soften. 2017–24+ 15.5