Michael Schuster | That spicy, blackberry-ripe, wild rose herbal-fresh Merlot; full, beautifully fresh, quite firmly but finely tannic, a first-rate balance; deep, sweet, generous flavor, subtle and complex within a generous, flatteringly fleshy texture, mineral-tinged, black-cherry ripe, long and classy and persistent. A really fine Latour à Pomerol. Sweeter and fleshier and more succulent than La Grave, at a very similar quality level, if without La Grave’s gravel aromatic complexity. 2028–45+.