Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve: Superb volume, flavorful and refined on the palate; focused fruit, floral, unctuous, and fresh, with great length. 19

Michael Schuster: Lovely, sweet, ripe core of fruit to smell, with a light oak-dry aroma; rich, firm, elegantly balanced, with a fresh acidity and the year’s firm tannins; warm, ripe, pure in fruit, long and penetrating in flavor; complex pomerol, both generous and muscular at once; classy, sweet-cored, warm, and with a marked spicily resonant aromatic length. the year’s juiciness of ripe fruit alongside the cru’s clayey muscularity: finesse and class allied to sinew. Fine, long-term trotanoy. 2026–40+. 18