95 Points | International Wine Cellar , July/August 2012

(15.5% alcohol on the label!):  Saturated medium ruby.  Enticing aromas of cassis, coffee, mocha and licorice pastille.  Hugely dense but fine-grained, offering a liqueur-like, exotic sweetness to its superripe dark fruit and chocolate flavors.  For all its richness and baby fat, the wine's chalky underpinning prevents it from coming off as monolithic.  Perhaps most impressive on the broad, extremely long, palate-staining finish, which features a boatload of ripe tannins and repeating sexy oak tones.  This outstanding Troplong-Mondot should drink well for the next 25 years.

92 Points | Wine Spectator

99 Points | Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate