Neil Beckett | A great experience and a great privilege to taste this (as usual there will be only 500 bottles or so). A deep ruby but a natural luster, too. An astonishing, more recognizably special, scent, at once dark-fruited, with a bitter-chocolate intensity, and elegantly restrained, with no hint that all of the oak is new. The intensity and scale on the palate, with plentiful but powdery tannins, are matched by the sublime refinement that makes this such a magical site. | 98–99