Andrew Jefford | Dense, dark black-red. Vivid, earthy and warm, with ample fruits: exuberant and accessible just now. Lots of ripe fruits in a rather roasty, warm, and broad-shouldered style, with generous tannins. An affable and over-delivering 2016, though a very striking contrast to the arrow-like purity of the blackcurrant fruits in St-Julien. Here all is wealth and warmth. | 91

Michael Schuster | A ripe, lightly plummy nose; medium- to full-bodied wine, with a freshly defining acidity and a fine, firm tannin; sweetly ripe Merlot fleshiness within a gently sinewy frame, but a complex and refined Tourelles, needing and rewarding time in bottle. 2028–36+. | 89