Robert Parker's Wine Advocate 29/06/2010 This is a slight upgrade for this wine, which seems to be approaching full maturity but is in no danger of losing fruit or declining for at least another 10 years. It is one of the most elegant wines of the vintage, with an ethereal nose of red and blue fruits, spring flowers, and hints of bay leaf and graphite, while unsmoked cigar tobacco and plum also make an appearance in the strikingly complex aromatics and flavors. The wine is medium-bodied, not a blockbuster by any means, but a wine of terrific balance, purity, symmetry, and style. Drink it over the next 20 years. From bottle, several samples were perplexingly closed and reluctant to open. Yet with aeration, this wine represents the quintessential model of both Graves and Bordeaux elegance. A wine of finesse and depth, it has superb concentration and opulence. Medium-bodied, layered, and lush, with extraordinary aromatic complexity (cigar tobacco, earth, coffee, black currants, and ripe plums/prunes), stunning purity, a seamless texture, and sweet tannin, it will take longer to provide thrilling drinking than I initially thought. At present, it is tight and closed, but aeration brings out its perfume. Anticipated maturity: 2007-2020. (92)