Andrew Jefford: Stern, dark black-red in color. Much more closed at this stage than, for example, the Pagodes de Cos: brooding. There’s a suspicion of leaf here, but it’s not a blemish; it just freshens those dark, somber black fruits and slabby clay aromas a little. Concentrated and weighty on the tongue, with flavors that hint at ink and iron; stern and ducal. The tannins, by contrast, are not forbidding, and it has all the class of the site in its refined, layered, slowly unfolding flavors. Very impressive, though I’d leave it for a year or two first. This will probably merit a higher score once some aromatic evolution is evident. 2018–28. 91

Michael Schuster: Dense to smell, black-fruit dominated, closed but with a sense of considerable “reserve”; rich and ample, fresh, finely tannic; a fine, blackcurrant Cabernet flavor, gravel-tinged, aromatic, sweetcored, complex, and long to finish. A particularly fine, complete second wine. 2019–30+. 90