Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve: Great Sauternes character: marvelous finesse and aromatic elegance, rich and pure; great length on the palate, with a noble bitterness: a great wine. 18

Michael Schuster: Dense, spicy, rich, and minerally to smell; vital, concentrated, elegantly proportioned, especially because of the impression of acidity; an intensely sweet, vivid expression of Guiraud, racy in character, with a clear minerality behind the sugar; long and complex to taste, and with fine length—if the finish see

Michael Schuster: a little “dry” and without quite the fruit core of the mid-palate. Very good Guiraud, nonetheless. 17.5