John Gilman: Château d’Yquem is an utterly stunning young wine and a very worthy follow-up to the magical wine produced at this estate in 2009. The bouquet is deep, complex, and flat-out brilliant as it soars from the glass in a celestial melange of pineapple, tangerines, a touch of passion fruit, honeycomb, beautifully complex and chalky soil tones, spring flowers and a very gentle touch of vanillin oak. On the palate, the wine is deep, full-bodied, suave, and utterly seamless, with great mid-palate depth, bright acids, and surreal length and grip on the dancing and very intensely flavored finish. The 2010 Yquem is not quite as ethereally complex at this stage as the hauntingly beautiful 2009, but in terms of sheer quality, it seems likely to be every bit as profound. 2020–2100+. 19.5

Michael Schuster: Very fresh, honey and lemon, and fine, subtle, cedar oak to smell; a concentrated middleweight Yquem, with a beautiful balance of sweetness to freshness; very sweet yet vivid in taste, a great purity of honey and lemon fruit; elegant, refined, slender, and intense; quite restrained in style, moderate in complexity, luscious on a lesser scale, with that succulent, smoothly polished, liqueur-like beauty of texture that is so often unique to this property, and with fine, honeyed length—but missing real presence on the finish because of the lack of noble-rot aromatic intensity. Great charm and “deliciousness,” certainly, but not a great or exciting Yquem, precisely because of an absence of real botrytis density to taste. It should, however, be attractive from the moment it is bottled. 2014–30+. 17.5/18