A dark ruby color is accompanied by a sweet bouquet of blueberry and black currant fruit. This medium-bodied, low acid, fleshy, richly fruity, smooth 1998 will provide delicious drinking over the next decade.

Really perfumed and beautiful, with flowers and blackberry oozing out of the glass. Full-bodied, with supersilky tannins, this wine has a beautiful persistence and class. So delicious now to drink, but will definitely improve with age.—'88/'98 Bordeaux blind retrospective (2008). Drink now. 5,830 cases made. -JS