Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve: a wonderfully refined texture: suave and satiny, delicate and silky, with notes of violet and fresh ripe fruit. Flavorful and long tannins: a great achievement. 17.5

Michael Schuster: Marked minerality to smell; concentrated, with a firm tannin and acidity; a brisk but attractively sweet fruit character, minerally and pure within a long- term tannin structure; lean for a pomerol, especially by comparison with many pomerols this year, but with fine aromatic length. 2020– 30+. 16