Michel Bettane: Different style, no evidence of hot vintage, middleweight, elegant tannins, Cabernet-type tannin, will age gracefully. 17

Thierry Desseauve: Freshness and elegance, mineral and red fruit, svelte and long. Racy. 18

Michael Schuster: Quite tight and closed to smell, but clearly ripe fruit; elegantly balanced, firmly tannic wine, long and close-grained in its slightly austere style; racy and aromatically complex St-Emilion, which will need time but will be very good. 2025–40. 17