Andrew Jefford | Promisingly dark black-red in color, the ’15 Pibran smells of soft, ripe plums and cherries in slightly dusty, open style. It’s attractive if rather simple in aroma. The palate is soft, open, and generous in articulation, with bright, quietly meaty blackcurrant fruits, lively acidity, understated tannins, and impressive concentration and length. This will make an appetizing and digestible bottle of Pauillac in the short and medium term. | 88

Michael Schuster | A fine, lightly gravelly nose; medium-full wine with a lively acidity and fairly firm tannin; a tasty, medium-weight claret of moderate complexity and light length. Good but quite tannic at the moment and needing time. 2024–32+. | 88+