Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve: This wine is shaping up to be a classic: noble rot, dense, complex, and rich on the finish: remarkable. 18

Michael Schuster: Fresh and vital to smell; richness, elegance, concentration, freshness; intensely sweet in flavor, with a vivid defining acidity; long, racy, and refined, a beautiful combination of density, definition, finesse, and great purity of vividly lemon-edged fruit; a Sauternes with a remarkable aromatic power and complexity, and with exceptional minerally length. 18.5