89 Wine Spectator
Apple tart, offering lemon, apple skin and just a hint of vanilla cream, with botrytis spice underneath. Medium- to full-bodied and medium sweet, with aniseed and lemon peel flavors. Spice and white pepper comes out too. Needs time. Best after 2012. ?JS
86 Robert Parker
Fat, monolithic, flabby, and too sweet, without enough acidity, this wine comes across as a somewhat disjointed fruit bomb with no nuances or complexity. Perhaps it is going through a difficult stage, but it didn?t show well among the other wines from the Barsac and Sauternes region.
Apple tart, offering lemon, apple skin and just a hint of vanilla cream, with botrytis spice underneath. Medium- to full-bodied and medium sweet, with aniseed and lemon peel flavors. Spice and white pepper comes out too. Needs time. Best after 2012. ?JS