96(+?) Points | International Wine Cellar , March/April 2012

Good deep red with ruby highlights.  Blackberry, boysenberry, violet and peppery herbs on the reticent nose.  The palate offers an extraordinary combination of volume and energy, showing classically dry fruit, fresh herb and pepper flavors and less obvious power today than La Tache.  But this is also an outsized wine, with a saline, mouth-saturating finish that features great finesse of tannins and superb subtle thrust.  Plenty of herbal, spicy, peppery evidence of whole-cluster vinification.  The toughest of these wines today and in need of at least 10 or 12 years of cellaring.

98+ Points | Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate