Tasted single blind at Southwold. Reticent on the nose: dense tarry black fruits, touches of roasted herbs and graphite. Nice purity though and that opens up with aeration, allowing more figgy/damson aromas to show through. The palate is full-bodied, good ripeness and fruit concentration, good acidity, backward and dense but with assertive black tarry fruit on the finish. Could only be a Saint Estephe. Showing great precision and charm but it will need time. Drink 2015-2030. Tasted January 2009.

Mature red; ripe and savoury to smell; fresh, gently tannic, medium full wine, very nice Cru Bourgeois balance; brisk, juicy, ripe fruited lesser claret, robust, straightforward, satisfying, and with very good length. Very fair value. Now to 22

Robert Parker''s Wine Advocate 30/04/2008

A somewhat monolithic, one-dimensional effort from one of my favorite St.-Estephe estates, the medium-bodied, fruity 2005 Les Ormes de Pez exhibits sweet black currant, damp earth, and fresh mushroom-like characteristics. It should be consumed over the next 7-8 years.

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Bright medium ruby. Black cherry, menthol and fresh herbs on the moderately ripe nose. Offers decent texture, but this medicinal, cool wine has a distinct green streak to its fruit. Finishes slightly dry-edged. Hard to warm to.

The 2005 Les Ormes de Pez is medium-bodied, soft, round, not terribly concentrated, but spicy and earthy, with light tannin. Drink it over the next decade.

Tasted blind. Dense and complex. Round and correct with freshness, ripe fruit and fine tannins. (JR)