Soft and round with chocolate, coffee and dark fruits. Full and velvety. Chewy in the end. Best ever.jamessuckling.com
James SucklingScore: 92-93/100
One of the best ever from this estate. Splendid wine with extra depth and purity of fruit. Suave texture and very fine tannins. James Lawther, decanter.com
DecanterScore: 17/20
Vital, racy and lively with real excitement and beginning, middle and end. Lots of sinew and juice. Proper wine! Dry but not drying finish. jancisrobinson.com
Jancis Robinson MWScore: 17/20
This has a very refined bouquet with dark cherries, Maraschino and a touch of cassis with fine delineation. The palate is well balanced with supple tannins on the entry, very pure and precise towards the finish. This is a very fine Grand Corbin Despagne. Tasted April 2011. Neal Martin erobertparker.com
Neal MartinScore: 90-92/100
Well-knit already, showing a fleshy edge to the plum sauce, blackberry and toast, with a nice graphite note lurking in the background. This has stuffing. Should unwind nicely. James Molesworth, winespectator.com
Wine SpectatorScore: 88-91/100
This wine has dark, dense tannins with austere cassis and plum fruit characters. It is a classy wine with good freshness and elegance. The finish is fairly long and the depth of flavours suggest it will age gracefully for a decade or more. asianpalate.com
Jeannie Cho Lee MWScore: 88-90/100
A sleeper of the vintage, this wine is usually muscular, tannic and backward, although very concentrated, but the 2010 is surprisingly more showy, precocious, charming and easier to drink out of the gate than normal. Still a deep bluish/purple color, with loads of incense and blue and black fruits, it is medium to full-bodied and ideal for drinking over the next decade or more. Feb 2013, www.robertparker.com
Robert ParkerScore: 89/100
Bordeaux / France