Michael Schuster | Dense yet closed, ripe fruit and subtle minerals; fullish, fresh, and finely tannic; sweet, vivid, very fine-textured wine, with a lovely purity of fruit; fragrant, subtle, succulent, long to taste, appetizing and persistent. A much more restrained, natural, appetizing wine than it used to be up until 2017. For me, at least, the winemaking, plus a reduction from around 90–95% new wood to 50%, make of this a much more flowing and transparent St-Emilion style, a much truer and much more agreeable expression of its locale. Chapeau! 2026–38+.