The 2014 Calon Ségur is a real show-stopper. Unusually ripe, powerful and seductive, the wine exudes class. Myriad shades of plum, sweet red cherry, pomegranate, spice and blood orange are all on display. Wild flowers, tobacco and host of more aromatic notes develop in the glass. Above all else, though, the 2014 is a wine of pure power and breadth. This is yet another fabulous showing for the 2014 Calon Ségur, a wine that vies for top honors in this vintage. Don't miss it. The blend is 67 % Cabernet Sauvignon, 19 % Merlot, 15 % Cabernet Franc and 2 % Petit Verdot.

Blackberry and cassis fruits, liquorice root, salted carramel, feels very much at the start of its drinking window, tannins beginning to smooth out, corners softened, tobacco notes rising from mid palate onwards. This is enjoyable and accomplished, with grip and character. 100% new oak. Two years after it had been sold by the Gasqueton family to Suravenir Insurance.

This is real powerful and sexy with a voluptuous style of ripe fruit, mushrooms and wet earth. Leafy. Full and seductive. Better after 2021 but already fantastic. - jamessuckling.com, February 2017

Heady fragrance nose, smells ripe and potent. Thick almost on the palate, this definitely has some sweet fruit aspects, mixed with herbal touches and minerality so you're getting lots of different flavours with a texture that is quite sleek and streamlined. Tannins are present but well integrated, a soft spice to them which keeps the relatively defined frame. Fruity and fun, if not totally refined, but enjoyable nonetheless and has great acidity which lifts the whole expression. Not as long a finish as some.

The 2014 Calon-Ségur has a dense, ripe, powerful bouquet with layers of blackberry and bilberry fruit, crushed stone, black olive and just a hint of Indian ink. I love the audacity of this Saint Estèphe. The palate is medium-bodied with firm, grippy tannin. This is a dense, broody, introspective wine with layers of black fruit laced with spice-box, black olive, maybe just a little greenness towards the finish, though I feel that this will be assimilated with time in bottle. Give it ages and ages to mature. Tasted blind at the annual Southwold tasting. - vinous.com, March 2018

The 2014 Calon Ségur has a much more reticent bouquet than either the 2014 Montrose or Cos d'Estournel. There is blackberry here, a hint of cassis and violets, fine purity but bolshie and withdrawn at the moment. The palate is medium-bodied with ripe tannin, more red fruit than the Montrose with a smooth, quite silky Merlot-like, graphite finish. Tasted on two occasions in Bordeaux, the second bottle exuded more panache and joie-de-vivre, coming across a little more spicy with a longer aftertaste. NM

Tasted blind. Youthfully dark garnet. Sweetly fruited, both black and red. Leafy, open and inviting. I thought it might be very slightly bretty/meaty but this impression was not shared by most in the group. Compact, fine tannins, just a little bitter on the aftertaste. But the fruit is excellent and I put this up half a point on retasting. It was the overall top-scorer in the St-Estèphe flight even though it was not my highest scorer. (JH)