Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve: A solid wine, with a broad structure but not lacking finesse; well-defined tannins, spicy length, great potential, confirming that this estate is in fine form. 17/17.5

Michael Schuster: Lovely, stylish, plummy, roasted, ripe fruit to smell; rich, concentrated, fresh and finely tannic wine, with that wonderful image of Pomerol flavor: sweet, smooth, violet fragrant; an intense fruit core of great perfume, great purity, great finesse, and lovely fruit length. Clinet is not assembled until much later, and the sample I tasted a week later was noticeably more muscular, still with that lovely core fruit, but a much firmer surround. Full of promise, though. 2020–35. 17/17.5