Michel Bettane: Tobacco scent, excellent body, silky; some 2009 overripeness but deftly managed, with great length and noble tannin. 17.5

Thierry Desseauve: Tobacco and spice, association between depth and mellow, perfect tannins, and great potential for aging. 18.5

Michael Schuster: Very ripe fruit to smell; rich, generous, fleshy yet structured wine, with a mass of firm, fine tannin behind the abundance of ripe fruit; long, complex, close-grained flavor, ripe and minerally at once, mouth-filling and aromatic, with great inner energy, dynamism and great spicy, aromatic length. A powerful yet elegant, complex, and complete expression of Pauillac. 2027–50+. 18.5