Tasted at BI Wine & Spirits' 10-Years-On tasting, the 2007 Giscours has a pleasant mulberry, strawberry and orange blossom-scented bouquet, with the Merlot component quite expressive and lending a Right Bank-like veneer. The palate is medium-bodied with crisp tannin, plenty of truffle-infused black fruit with a vein of pencil lead on the finish. This bottle showed better than previous examples, including the one shown at the Giscours vertical in 2015, since it came across less austere. Tasted February 2017.

– The Wine Advocate#231, June 2017

Bright ruby-red. Crushed berries, black cherry syrup, violet and bitter chocolate, along with pepper and herbal nuances. A juicy, aromatic midweight with moderate intensity to its dark fruit flavors. On the lean side and not yet complex, but rather elegantly styled. Finishes with firm tannins and moderate length.

Very dark crimson. Fresh, frank, Cabernet aromas. Pretty, lively, scented. A very nice whole. Not forced. Well-judged expression of the vintage. Transparent – not at all heavy. Quite different in style from the much denser Lascombes, for example. (JR)

Bricky red. Very herbaceous and lots of undergrowth. Pretty mature and rather lean on the finish. (JH)