Impressive nose with leather, dark polished fruit and flowers. Wonderful mouthfeel with soft silky tannins and beautiful texture. Really well put together. Powerful and rich with loads of fruit and ripe tannins. Very ripe. Try in 2016.
-www.jamessuckling.com, 'Tasting Report: 2010 Bordeaux "More Great Vintage"', 3 Feb 2012

(94-95 pts)
This is impressive, with a gorgeous palate of super velvety tannins and ultra-ripe fruit. Full and caressing yet muscular and powerful. Tasted three times. Best ever.

Lead pencil shavings, soy and barbecue smoke as well as red and black currants characterize this brilliant effort, which has an expansive, full-bodied mouthfeel yet a sublime elegance and lightness of being. Dense ruby/purple, gorgeous purity and a long, long finish of close to 50 seconds characterize another brilliant effort from this classified growth in Pessac-Leognan. It should drink nicely for 25-30 years yet is surprisingly accessible even today. Drink: 2013 - 2043

A fabulous blend of 45% Cabernet Sauvignon, 45% Merlot and the rest Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot, this large (nearly 120-acre) estate near Haut-Bailly and Branon has tuned out another fabulous effort in 2010.
-Robert Parker, Wine Advocate #205 Feb 2013

(92-94 pts)
2010: A beautiful wine from proprietor Alexandre Bonnie's 115-acre vineyard, this blend of 45% Cabernet Sauvignon, 45% Merlot and the rest Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot hit 14% natural alcohol. The Cabernet Sauvignon harvest was late, ending on October 18. The wine's dense purple color is followed by aromas of vanillin, smoked herbs, tobacco leaf, black currants and blackberries. This rich, elegant Pessac-Leognan is loaded with potential. It should drink well in 3-4 years and evolve for 20-25.

Tasted at the Union de Grand Cru in London. The Malartic 2010 has an exuberant bouquet with small dark cherries, cassis and violets – almost Margaux-like in style. The palate is plush and fruit-driven, almost like 2009, with great backbone and fine minerality and tension right through to the finish. This is an outstanding wine from this estate that improves year after year. Tasted November 2012.

(93-95 pts)
The Malartic-Lagraviere has a very well defined, quite floral bouquet with crushed violets, small dark cherries and a touch of dark plum. Very good clarity and refinement. The palate is medium-bodied with tensile tannins, very good acidity lending tension and focus towards the finish. This is a fantastic Pessac that deserves a long-term berth in your cellar. Tasted April 2011.

A broad swath of damson plum, blackberry and anise rolls along, followed by spice, black tea and black licorice notes on the dense finish. Serious grip is buried here as well. —J.M.

Cru Classé Pessac-Léognan (36hl/ha, 13.7%, 75% New) [45CS/45M/5CS/5PV] Dense to smell; rich, tannic, vigorous and muscular wine; abundant sweetly ripe fruit core, moderately complex, long and juicy and tannic; a fairly massive expression of the terroir, slightly warm from the alcohol, and with excellent fruit length. Pretty chewy in style, fairly monolithic for Pessac-Léognan, with a bit of a ‘right bank’ acent. Perilously close to tough? We shall see in the long term. Will certainly need time. 2020-30+ [M.Schuster, Bordeaux Mar/Apr 2011]