The 2008 Poujeaux has an appealing red berry, cedar and tobacco-scented bouquet that might just miss the delineation of its peers, but it seems to gain clarity in the glass if never slipping into fifth gear. The palate is medium-bodied with fine grain tannin, fresh in the mouth with a cohesive and quite persistent finish that suggest it will repay another couple of years in bottle. (Tasted at BI Wine & Spirit’s annual 10-Year On tasting.) - vinous.com, February 2018

Another sleeper of the vintage, this beautifully plump, fleshy, corpulent 2008 exhibits a dense ruby/purple color as well as sweet blue and black fruit, smoke, earth and forest floor characteristics. Medium-bodied with outstanding concentration, purity and texture, it can be drunk now and over the next decade.

Coffee, cocoa and black cherry plus a bit of granitic aroma too. Lovely complexity and goût de terroir here, from an over-performing château. (RH)