Notes:

Tasting note: A ripe nose of orchard fruit, citrus and a lovely stony character that also displays a touch of reduction highlights the big, powerful and intense flavors that possess excellent depth of material and perhaps the best complexity of any of these 1ers. This is a racehorse with firm acidity and terrific focus and it can compete with the grands crus in 2004 as it definitely has that 'wow' factor. Burghound 93 - outstanding!

Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar, Nov/Dec 06($93)
Pale, green-tinged color. More raw and bracing on the nose than the Butteaux but more complex too, hinting at ginger, quinine, grapefruit, menthol and crushed stone. Precise, pure and tightly wound, with terrific precision to the citrus and stone flavors. But this juicy wine is not yet pliant or particularly expressive, and its density is overshadowed today by its citric spine. Distinctly austere but very long and subtle on the aftertaste. This bottle certainly tracks the barrel sample I tried a year ago. I'd wait six or seven years on this baby. 91(+?) points