Michel Bettane: Dark color, cedary nose, more polished texture than Barton; not so dense but with excellent balanced tannins; young, able to age a long time. 17.5

Thierry Desseauve: Slim and deep body, superb freshness of the fruit, long and brilliant without being over the top. 18

Michael Schuster: Refined, cedary, subtly gravelly nose; elegantly balanced middleweight, fresh, finely, firmly tannic; long, complex, and close-knit to taste; ripe fruit and gravelly elegance but a very long-term tannin texture, too. Firm finesse! Classic Léoville Poyferré refinement, but the year’s austerity, too. 2018–30+. 17.5