Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve: A complete wine, rich, deep and self-assured on the finish, but this is another one that is still finding its personality. Will most certainly be a great wine, but one that will need time to show its full potential. 18

Michael Schuster: Dense, fat fruit impression on the nose; ample, fleshy, generous wine; intensely sweet, powerful for the vintage; mouth-filling, rich, a touch coarse in the context, and with that slight weakness of finish that see

Michael Schuster: there on many Sauternes this year, in comparison with up-front impressions. A big wine in the year; impressive if not absolutely even now. 17