Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve: This cult wine, made by Stéphane Derenoncourt is one of the greatest successes on the Right Bank in this exceptional vintage. To its customary breadth, depth, and length, it adds an elegance and a purity of texture that is unparalleled. This is certainly the most beautiful vintage ever produced by this high-quality property and one of the most winning wines of the year. 19.5

Michael Schuster: Inky black/red; incredibly exuberant ripe fruit nose—sweet, oak vanilla-y; a wine of great concentration but no excess, finely, firmly tannic; very old-vine flavor, an impressive mass of fruit in the mouth, warm, sweet, powerful without being heavy; a fine, vital freshness defining all that matter, long and chewy in the mouth, but without coarseness, and long, sweet, warm, and scented to finish. The acceptable face of the extreme new wave, without the raisiny character on many of the oaky, low-yield, super-ripe wines. Powerful all the same—you have to like the style, and it’s not for me. But impossible not to be impressed. 2022–40. 17/17.5+