Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve: a tiny harvest, but a great success: a complete wine, deeply colored, ample with balanced texture, a complex finish, a touch of menthol, and splendidly pure oak. 18.5

Michael Schuster: dense, cedary, slightly toasty oak-marked nose; a rich middleweight, fresh-to-firm in acidity, firmly tannic, fine in its slightly austere proportions; long and firm, very cabernet Sauvignon in flavor, complex, aromatic, mineral, a long, fine, classic claret in a firmer style; will be severe early on, and probably need 15 years before broaching; not the fat, ripeness, class, scope, and projection of 2010—a more muscular version of 2008 perhaps? that said, this is very good. 2024–35+. 18