Wine Advocate February, 2012 From a tiny, just under 10-acre vineyard east of St.-Emilion in the sector known as St.-Christophe des Bardes, this wine is 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc, tipping the scales at 14.9% alcohol. It was bottle unfined and unfiltered. Loads of chocolate, roasted espresso, blackberry and blueberry fruit notes along with some smoke and burning embers jump from a glass of this wine, which has terrific fruit intensity, a massive mouthfeel, yet not a trace of astringency or hardness. Velvety tannins, low acidity and an extraordinary, opulent, even sumptuous mouthfeel make for a wine to drink over the next 10-15 years. One of my favorite garagiste operations, Clos Dubreuil fashioned an unctuously-textured 2009 filled with black cherry, ripe raspberry, and blackberry fruit interwoven with crushed rock, smoke, and graphite characteristics. Full-bodied with tremendous density and opulence as well as attention getting levels of texture, richness, and length, this superb St.-Emilion can be enjoyed during its first 12-15 years of life. (Tasted two times.) (93-95)