Andrew Jefford | Dark, somber black-red. Sweet, enticing plums drizzled with icing sugar and flower petals: very pretty but not in any sense overdone or vulgar. Hard not to sip after you have smelled this, though there are other Pomerol wines where the aromas are rather more powerful and forthcoming. The palate is sweet, warm, graceful, deftly expressed, and beautifully ripe, supported by firmer tannins than many and with a fresh, sustained, ripe-acid note—indeed, there is just a little green tea leaf, which I hadn’t expected from the aromatic profile. Stylistically, it is spot-on, though it is not notably concentrated in 2015; it will provide enjoyable drinking for the best part of two decades nonetheless. | 92

Michael Schuster | Rich in fruit to smell, with a faintly herbal Cabernet Franc character; full, firmly tannic, ample, fleshy, ripe-fruited flavor, long, sweet, and complex to taste, quite powerful, but without any coarseness, and with fine, sweet-fruited, aromatic length. Very fine, long-term. 2028–40+. | 94