A wine with beautiful strawberry and chocolate with hints of pie crust. It's full-bodied with super integrated tannins and a long, long finish. Needs at least four to five years to really come together but so wonderful. Not the amazing 2009 but clearly outstanding.

Still showing a serious depth of color, with just a bit of lightness around the edges, the wine remains richly textured, concentrated, lush, and packed with layers of dark red and black fruits, earth, chocolate, and espresso nuances. Drink from 2025-2045.

The Malescot Saint-Exupery has a very well defined nose very precise with good mineralité. Blackberry cedar graphite and limestone great focus and aromatic "bravura". The palate has a ripe fleshy entry quite noticeable new oak but there is sufficient fruit to support it. Seamless texture with dark cherries blackcurrant a touch of graphite and cedar towards the finish that is more "classic" in style than the entry. This has great potential and could turn out to be better than the 2009.

Deep garnet colored, the 2010 Malescot St. Exupery wafts gracefully out of the glass with scents of potpourri, raspberry coulis and kirsch over a cassis and warm plums core with a touch of pencil shavings. Medium to full-bodied, the palate is packed with juicy red and black fruits, sporting a firm, fine-grained texture and oodles of freshness. It has a good, long and remarkably pure finish.- LPB

50% cabernet sauvignon 35% merlot 10% cabernet franc and 5% petit verdot. Aged in 100% new oak for approximately 14 months. Intense aromas of incense coffee mocha and ripe blackberry rise from the glass. The wine is elegant and medium-bodied and I love the texture and precise concentration. A fair amount of tannins but well balanced this offers serious persistence all the way to the long fresh finish. Try between 2015 and 2025.

Enjoyable, richly textured, this is open and at the start of its drinking window, attractive depth through the mid palate, a little overly smoked that threatens the balance on the finish, but there is a lot to enjoy here with graphite, crayon and liquorice root set against damson fruits - and the rich texture that comes into focus after a good 30 minutes in the glass suggests that it will develop further over the next decade or so. 80% new oak.

This delivers a slightly chewy-edged feel, with charcoal and roasted alder hints holding sway over the core of steeped damson plum, black currant and anise notes. Shows grip through the finish, but stays long, featuring a lovely backdrop of tar and warm stone. The excellent range and drive should pay off in the cellar. Best from 2015 through 2030. – JM