Michel Bettane: Big color, big body, very serious texture and tannin content, ripe tobacco and spicy bouquet, even some graphite, pencil, Pauillac-like element. Will age. 17

Thierry Desseauve: Brilliantly built, with a fantastic balance between ripeness and freshness. Fine bouquet, great length. 17.5

Michael Schuster: Ripe, plummy fruit to smell; very nicely balanced in its slightly firmer St-Estèphe style; ripe and muscular, but with an abundance of fruit to enjoy; nice length of flavor and with excellent aromatic length of aftertaste; satisfying, chewy, classic St-Estèphe. 2022–35+. 16