Michel Bettane: Super-ripe and open nose, full texture and body with velvety tactile sensations, very generous Merlot. Will age quickly. 16

Thierry Desseauve: A Cos d’Estournel of the other bank! Same ripeness, same velvety body, same dark fruit aromas... 16.5

Michael Schuster: Sweetly ripe nose; well enough balanced in the drily new-oaky current St-Emilion style; warm, ripe, tannic, powerful, a mass of ripe fruit, finishes long and warm, but perhaps a bit of a bruiser at table. 2020–30+. 15+