Allen Meadows - Score: 96 (2012 Sep.)

Compared to the Preuses, this is more obviously floral and stonier as well with its cool, pure and equally classic green fruit, mineral reduction and oyster shell nose. The powerful medium-bodied flavors exude plenty of dry extract that confers a sappy texture upon the strikingly complex mid-palate though the saline suffused cuts-like-a-knife finish is chiseled, explosive and massively long. This is textbook Les Clos with size, power and explosive energy and offers a remarkable contrast to the Zen-like Preuses where its harmony and understatement are its primary strengths. One can admire both, but either way, they are impressive as hell.

Vinous - Score: 97+ (2019 Nov.)

Bright light yellow. Brilliant, slightly wild nose combines lemon, white pepper, minerals, white truffle and wild herbs, plus complicating hints of noble rot and passerillage. Wonderfully creamy and fine-grained, with a lovely hint of sweetness giving this wine a considerable pleasure quotient even now. This bracingly energetic yet somehow silky Clos saturates the entire palate and vibrates and sizzles on the slowly mounting whiplash of a finish, which leaves behind traces of resin and chlorophyll. There's still a noble bitterness here and a very tight kernel of fruit, but this outstanding Clos is closer to drinking than the previous vintages. Really tastes of the sea. Dauvissat told me that this wine tasted good virtually from the start; in fact, he was afraid that it was more a wine of ripeness than of terroir. Today it has it all, with more to come. ("a good 13% alcohol, richer than the 2012," according to Dauvissat; acidity between 4.3 and 4.5 grams per liter; 9/21 harvest; Dauvissat brought in his Clos prior to a rainy spell that made the later picks problematic; from what Dauvissat described as a small crop for grand cru in 2010--between 40 and 45 hectoliters per hectare)