(94-96 points) A little more depth of colour, vigorous purple. Again discretion, but not lightness, is the hallmark of the nose, a really fine elegant charming wine, offering plenty of detail, with little red fruits, alpine strawberries, some mineral subtleties. Good fresh acidity and distinguished length.

Pure aromas and flavors of currant, cherry and violet are shaded by the sweet smoke of burning vine cuttings and graphite in this intense red. Shows tension and a solid structure that remains long, while earth, tobacco and mineral elements linger. Best from 2023 through 2042.— B.S.

(VN 91-94 points) Dark red. Highly perfumed nose combines purple fruits, animal fur, spices and musky coffee. Enters the mouth broader and sweeter than the Champeaux, then tightens up in the middle palate, showing terrific mineral spine to its flavors of medicinal red cherry, spicy oak and flowers. This seriously sappy premier cru is tough going today, with its tannins more obvious than those of the Champeaux. The yield here was just 30 hectoliters per hectare, as these vines are in the Combe Lavaux and were thus touched by the frost. -- Stephen Tanzer