Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve: Truly transcendental, so perfectly natural that words alone cannot do it justice. Everything about this wine is just right, from its ideal proportions to its eloquent expression of an exceptional terroir. The balance of freshness and power is even more remarkable than it was in the 2006 and 2007. 19

Michael Schuster: Closed, and yet with an impression of richness to smell—warmth, spice, fragrance; rich, medium-bodied wine with a gentle freshness and particularly fine-grained tannin; sweet and vital, prolonged and gentle, with a very subtle density and purity of flavor; very racy, very refined—violet-scented, finely mineral, and with an enormous fragrant persistence. A completely different expression of fine Pomerol from that of l’Eglise-Clinet, for example. A chamber group of a wine, all delicacy, silk and perfume. Effortlessly graceful—mesmerizing! 2018–30. 17/18+