Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve: A great cedary nose, due to more marked wood than on the Langoa, with a very complete palate, noble tannin, and the precocious plenitude of texture typical of the cru, which always shows at its best from the spring of its first year of élevage. 18

Michael Schuster: A sweetly ripe core of fruit on the nose; elegantly balanced in a firmly tannic style for the year; plenty of pure, ripe, refined, and quite complex fruit within its firmer frame, and with fine, scented length. But this will not be one of the early, fleshy charmers of the year. As with Langoa-Barton, this is a more tannic expression of the vintage, at this stage anyway, than many; tasting even firmer at the château than at the Union des Grands Crus tasting. Difficult to judge perhaps; will certainly need time to mellow. 2020–30+. 16/16.5?