Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve: As is often the case, this wine isn’t fully formed and homogenous at this stage, offering noble notes of cherry and plum, showing a rich and velvety texture, but missing the assurance on the finish that it will certainly have in six months. Comparisons between the samples presented and the wine straight from the barrel were enlightening. We can’t express just how much these primeur tastings go against all common sense! 17 (for the time being)

Michael Schuster: Very ripe fruit—raspberry, blackcurrant, and mineral, too; rich, very nicely balanced, relatively full and fleshy middleweight, with a very fine-grained, but present tannin; juicy ripeness within the finely firm structure; long, minerally, warm, and with fine, scented, gently fruity, sweet length. A fairly weighty Haut-Bailly but retaining its usual elegance and finesse as well. 2018–30. 16/16.5+