Michael Schuster: Ripe, blackberry fruit to the fore, and light wood cedar to smell; medium-full, supple, fresh, and lightly tannic; an easy, savory wine, with its style clearly dominated by a flowing Merlot rather than a Cabernet Sauvignon grip; moderate complexity, nice, light, juicy quality, and medium length. With its high proportion of Merlot, and quite a lot of young vines in the blend, this is a very different wine from the impressive 2008, which is almost pure Cabernet Sauvignon (94%). Interestingly, while Petit Mouton is usually served after d’Armailhac and Clerc Milon, just before Mouton itself, this year it was offered first. One can see why. Pleasing rather than special. 2013–20. 15.5/16?

Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve: Very pretty on the nose, wonderfully elegant tannins despite the magnitude of the vintage, though it does fall victim to the success of the fifth growths made by Mouton, which possess a bit more vinosity and tension in their youth than this wine does. 17.5