A blend of 57% Cabernet Sauvignon, 31% Merlot, 7% petit Verdot and 5% Cabernet Franc, the wine tips the scales at 14+% alcohol. Dense ruby/purple, with notes of blueberry pie interwoven with charcoal, licorice, some chalky crushed rocks and a distinctive floral note, the wine is succulent, unctuously textured, and fleshy, with low acidity and layers of fruit. A sensational effort from this cru bourgeois, it should drink well for 15-20 more years.

Robert Parker (Wine Advocate #199, Feb 2012)

Served blind at the Southwold 2009 tasting. This has a classic bouquet of blackberry, briary and cedar that is tightly wound but well defined. The palate is medium-bodied with firm tannins, saline-tinged black fruit, good depth and grip with a slightly brutish finish that will need several years to calm down. But this has good potential. Tasted January 2013.

– eRobertParker.com, Jul 2013

[55CS/30M/6CF/6PV] A lovely, perfumed, persistent, and particularly refined nose of blackberry and mineral; crisp acidity defining a very ripe fruit on a minerally mediumweight wine; a sweet, quite dense fruit within the firm St Estêphe tannin, but a lovely matter behind it, and good fruit length too; Excellent Le Crock, one of best ever. 2015-25