Paul Schmidt

9.3

From magnum, tight and fresh with berry and cedar. Quite plush. A real treat! — 11 years ago

Lewis Chester

9.4

2004 vintage. 86% Cabernet Sauvignon on the '04. Very good complexity, huge concentration and some very expensive carpentry applied on new French oak barrels. Bright acidity and fine grained tannins. Lovely aromas of black berry and black currant, plush oak, sweet spices and layers of complexity. Still very young. The structure should see this improve in bottle for many years to come. Outstanding. — 11 years ago

Joel Wachbrit

9.4

Lovely. Plush and very resolved. Like drinking velvet. — 12 years ago

David L

9.4

86' Bottle fill & cork where perfect. Harder to find with a Bordeaux that old. Medium body wine. Tannins, acidity, fruit or so unbelievable . Plush & elegant. It wasn't very complexed or long. Many years left in it's prime. Another crowd pleasing wine. — 11 years ago

Robert Love

9.5

Nose of honey, oyster shell, and citrus. At once both firm, with cutting minerality and acid in the mouth, and opulent, with a plush perfume from the small amount of new oak. Just lovely. — 11 years ago

Cara Almberg

10

Silly smooth. Plush fruit. Earthly. Wow. Mind. Blown. — 11 years ago

Allison Tauziet

9.6

Iron, earth, plush texture and fresh acid. — 12 years ago

Eric L.

9.0

Very nice Merlot. Plush texture with red fruits and cocoa powder. — 11 years ago

Lewis Chester

9.3

2000 vintage. Deep ruby, edging to deep garnet around the rim, very bright. Plush on the nose. The black cassis notes from the Cab and the violets from the Cab Franc are very noticeable. The wine is developing with huge sweet spice, vanilla, smoke and leather. There's a bovril, meaty note here that's very attractive. On the palate, medium acidity, high tannin - grippy, but not coarse; well integrated. Alcohol is 13% and unobtrusive. Good concentration. Fruit is riper on palate than in the mouth, and a distinctive dark chocolate and cinnamon note. The finish is long and attractive. Hard to imagine this wine drinking any better from here. — 11 years ago

Alexandra Fondren

10

Still plush, round and long, with so much gorgeous fruit, graphite and spice. Perhaps best Pauillac I've ever had! — 12 years ago