Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve: deep color; exuberant and ripe fruit, round, with a touch of acidity that dominates the finish. Elegant but tense. deep. 17

Michael Schuster: attractively fresh ripe fruit; concentrated medium-full to full, fairly substantial and broad-shouldered for St- Emilion; firmly structured wine, with a fresh to vital acidity and firm, dry, grippy tannin; chewy in style, but with plenty of fresh ripe fruit, pure, quite complex, and fine within the tannin, and witha lovely fruit persistence. will be good but needs 10–15 years. 2022–35+. 16.5