John Gilman: Château Rieussec has turned out one of the most elegant and refined examples of the 2010 vintage, and this wine is an unqualified success. The nose is a bit less obviously botrytized than many of its neighbors this year, and the wine offers scents of tangerine, pineapple, bee pollen, lovely, chalky soil tones, and a very suave base of vanillin oak. On the palate, the wine is deep, fullish, and dancing, with fine mid-palate intensity, excellent focus, and a really impressive lightness of step on the long, complex, and tangy finish. In a vintage that is prone to heavy-handedness, the ethereal quality of this Château Rieussec is most impressive. 2015–35. 18

Michael Schuster: Rich and weighty to smell; a very rich and very sweet balance; broad, open, gently spicy flavor, but not the complexity that this wine usually has. Intensely sweet, of course, but it just seems to lack real botrytis concentration, scope, and projection; light length, mainly fruit. Attractively lush and opulent but a bit lackluster in comparison with the best of the year. 2015–30? 16.5/17