Allen Meadows - Score: 92 (2015 Jan.)

This is aromatically more elegant with its perfumed, spicy and quite floral nose that features mostly dark berry fruit liqueur-like scents. This is markedly more mineral-driven than the Combottes with terrific detail and tension to the ultra-refined medium weight flavors that brim with tannin-buffering dry extract on the saline, beautifully persistent and impeccably well-balanced finale. Good stuff that should be approachable young but age very well too.

Vinous - Score: 92+ (2015 Mar.)

Dark, bright red. Raspberry, spices and crushed stone on the vibrant nose and palate. A distinctly rocky, precise style, offering terrific lift and verve and a steely spine of acidity. Spreads out to saturate the palate without leaving any impression of weight. Lovely lingering perfume. Lay this one down for a while.