Michael Schuster: Gentle, ripe-fruit-and-mineral nose; nicely balanced, moderately dense wine, with a modest but fine-textured tannin and fresh acidity; easy, juicy, ripe blackberry and raspberry fruit, moderately long in the mouth, quite fluidly Merlot in character, but not weak, and with a crisp, fresh, red-fruit finish. A very attractive Carruades, without being a grand second wine. 2012–20. 15/15.5

Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve: Supple texture, ripe grape flavors, not overextracted; very pleasant, but the wine certainly doesn’t measure up to some of its equals in St-Julien or Margaux. 16.5