Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve | Lovely, pure, racy notes of botrytis (apricot jelly), that become even more complex with touches of pine and acacia. Intense and clean. The transformed alcohol will permit fabulous food pairings and a guaranteed bright future. | 17.5

Michael Schuster | Mute to smell at the moment; rich, lively wine, with a lovely vital balance and considerable concentration; intensely sweet, racily complex in flavor, long, subtly minerally, very refined, and with great aromatic length. Complexity, scope, class, vitality. A great Rayne Vigneau in prospect—at last; an all-too-rare reflection of the potential of this great terroir. I hope this is indeed what will be bottled. | 18.5