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The 2017 vintage in the press:

Vinous (A. Galloni - December 2020): 95/100 “The 2017 Feytit-Clinet is flat-out stunning, and also one of the wines of the vintage. An exotic mélange of blackberry jam, graphite, game, smoke, licorice and espresso builds in an explosive Pomerol endowed with tremendous verticality and power. As always, Feytit-Clinet is an especially somber Pomerol. Its textural finesse, personality and pure bred intensity are the stuff dreams are made of. Don't miss it"

J-M Quarin (February 2020): 90/100 “Dark, intense and beautiful color. Medium-aromatic nose, with pure, ripe fruit. Creamy touch. Finely mellow throughout, very well constructed, the palate of this wine evolves unceasingly tasty, on fine tannins. Long and very good."

The 2014 vintage in the press:

Vinous (A. Galloni - February 2017): 94/100 "Game, smoke, tobacco, licorice and incense run through the 2014 Feytit Clinet, wich exudes depth and intensity. Chocolate, gravel and a host of dark-toned fruits nearly bury the tannins.[...] Proprietor Jérémy Chasseuil and his team have done a terrific job with the 2014."

The 2021 vintage in the press:

Vinous (A. Galloni - December 2023): 94/100 “The 2021 Clos l'Eglise is an attractive, refined Pomerol. Crushed flowers, spice, red/purplish berry fruit, orange peel, new leather and mocha are all finely delineated. This mid-weight, gracious Pomerol has plenty to offer, but it needs time to recover its recent building.”

The 2022 vintage in the press:

Vinous (A. Galloni - January 2025): 95/100 "The 2022 Gazin is bright, punchy and focused. Beams of tannin confer a feeling of classicism that is palpable throughout. Dark blue/purplish fruit, crushed rocks, slate, menthol and graphite are all beautifully delineated. Power and finesse come alive in this distinguished, mid-weight Pomerol."

J.M Quarin (February 2025): 94/100 "Dark red colour, intense and lively. Very aromatic nose, with ripe fruit. A touch of smoke. Tender and tasty on the palate, fleshy and energetic, with flavour and a touch of austerity on the finish, even if the aromas come through behind.Good length."

The 2021 vintage in the press:

Vinous (A. Galloni - December 2023): 95/100 “The 2021 Gazin is a dark, ample wine. Layers of dark fruit, leather, licorice, smoke, tobacco and spice unfurl in the glass. Broad and powerful, the 2021 is super-impressive in this tasting. If there is a name to wsath in Pomerol, it is Gazin.”

The 2020 vintage in the press:

La Revue du Vin de France (Guide 2025): 93/100 “The nose, still discreet, distills notes of black fruits and sweet spices. The palate, richer and fuller, relies on the fine tension brought by the Cabernet Sauvignon.”

Vinous (N. Martin - January 2024): 91/100 “The 2020 Gazin has a very composed and harmonious bouquet. The palate is medium-bodied with a sapid entry and a tight, linear style that's just missing a bit of complexity toward the finish.”

The 2017 vintage in the press:

La Revue du Vin de France (Guide 2021): Coup de ♥ 94/100 “Beautifully dense, full and fragrant [...] the 2017 is a dazzling success of the vintage; it's a well-built wine, very straightforward, combining velvety smoothness and balance, tension and distinction, it will go far.”

Vinous (A. Galloni - December 2020): 92/100 "Powerful and lush, the 2017 Gazin is super-expressive and inviting. Leather, spice, cedar menthol and dried herbs give the 2017 a very pretty, earthy character that works quite well. The 2017 builds nicely in the glass, showing terrific perisitence and plenty of charactere."

The 2011 vintage in the press:

Vinous (N. Martin - September 2021): 91/100 "The 2011 Gazin has a lovely, open and generous bouquet with red berry fruit, pencil shavings, smoke and autumn bonfire. Yes, something very October-ish about the aromatics! The palate is medium-bodied with sappy red fruit, a little chewy, not quite as pliant or as complex as the '11 Trotanoy, though there is admirable substance on the finish."

The 2022 vintage in the press:

J.M Quarin (February 2025): 96/100 “Dark, intense, slightly evolved color. Very aromatic nose, with ripe, subtle fruit. Black fruit base mixed with fresh fruit (raspberry). More floral when the glass is shaken. Full-bodied on the attack, fleshy in the mid-palate, the wine melts on the palate towards a tasty vanilla finish. Irresistible. The best ever made with the 2018.”

Vinous (N. Martin - January 2025): 95/100 “The 2022 Clinet is a little more immediate than its showing from barrel when it needed more time to open. This offers well-defined and focused scents of black cherry, potpourri, oyster shell and tobacco. The palate is well balanced with a slightly savory opening thanks to the Cabernet components, with touches of graphite filtering through the dark chocolate-tinged dark berry fruit laced with a hint of mocha. This has fine length and is certainly fresh. it may need just three of four years in bottle and then will drink well for many more.”

The 2020 vintage in the press:

J-M Quarin (December 2024): 95/100 “Dark, intense, slightly evolved color. Very aromatic nose, with ripe fruit. Creamy touch. Caressing on the attack, savory in the middle, the wine develops on a creamy touch and a melting body, with taste and a powerful finish. Woody base to mellow with time. Wait for it".

The 2014 vintage in the press:

J-M Quarin (December 2024): 95/100 “Dark, intense, slightly evolved color. Very aromatic nose, with fresh, creamy fruit. Immediately juicy on entry, the wine develops tasty, very fruity, admittedly less velvety than the 2015, but with more lively stimulation. Long, deep finish. Very good. A nice surprise.”

Vinous (N. Martin - February 2024): 90/100 “The 2014 Clinet lacks a bit of vigor on the nose, tarry black fruit with pencil shavings and tobacco, a little Left Bank in style indicatives of some ripe Cabernet Franc. The palate is medium-bodied with saturated tannins, fleshy with fine acidity, though it just misses amplitude and personality on the finish where is just seems to coast.”

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The 2022 vintage in the press:

Vinous (A. Galloni - January 2025): 98/100 "The 2022 La Conseillante is a gorgeous, racy wine. Pliant and super-expressive, La Conseillante is positively stellart. The 2022 is a vertical, statuesque Conseillante. As alluring as the 2022 is at this stage, it also clearly needs cellaring to be at its finest. Time in the glass releases the aromatics, along with brisk acids that keep things in check. Blood orange, lavender, spice, menthol and espresso linger on the sustained finish. Technical Director Marielle Cazaux turned out what is quite possibly the mosy elegant wine in Pomerol. The 2022 was harvested from September 5th for Merlots through to the 20th, when the last Cabernet Franc was brought in. It was aged in 70% new wood, 27% once-filled barrels and 3% amphora."

The 2021 vintage in the press:

La Revue du Vin de France (Guide 2025): 96/100 “2021 is at first more earthy, with notes of small forest berries, Armenian paper and rose berry, but it quickly opens up to blue fruit baskets. In a lacy style, it will be ready in four to five years. ”

Vinous (A. Galloni - December 2023): 96/100 “The 2021 Conseillante is bright, fresh and fruity, with lovely red fruit character and fine balance. Crushed berries, rose petal, lavender, chalk, mint,and psice are beautifully delineated. In 2021, La Conseillante is a Pomerol of tension, nerve and delicacy more than volume. Time in the glass brings out bright floral notes that extend the finish. The blend is 85% Merlot and 15% Cabernet Franc that spent 18 months in French oak - 70 new, 27% once-filled barrels and 3% amphora. The 2021 is such a classy wine. I can't wait to see how it ages. The 2021 possesses a Burgundian sense of structure, for lack of a better term. Harvest started on September 28 for the Merlots, very late by recent standards, through October 1. The Cabernets were picked on October 6 and 12. The alcohol (13%) and pH (3.6) readings are those from another era.”

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The 2014 vintage in the press:

Vinous (N. Martin - February 2024): 92/100 “La Conseillante 2014 presents a wonderful bouquet with aromas of wild strawberry, cranberry, faded rose petals, salty licorice and violet[...] The new oak is now fully absorbed and the finish is precise and reasonably persistent.”

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The 2011 vintage in the press:

Vinous (N. Martin - Septembr 2021): 90/100 "The 2011 La Conseillante has a backward but delineated bouquet with earthy, sandalwood and pencil box aromas, perhaps in need of a little more fruit. The palate is medium-bodied with firm tannins, good body, but it lacks a little tension and complexity. A more muscular Pomerol for sure, though it might improve with bottle age. Solid, but nowhere near the class produced under Marielle Cazaux nowadays."

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The 2009 vintage in the press:

Vinous (N. Martin - February 2019): 97/100 "The 2009 La Conseillante has a very classy sophisticated bouquet with beautifully defined black and red fruit mixed with black truffle and pressed rose petals. The oak is just completely subsumed here. The palate is medium-bodied with ripe and saturated tannin, a fine line of acidity, fresh and tensile with a sense of mineralité on the finish."

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The 2017 vintage in the press:

Vinous (A. Galloni - March 2020): 97/100 “The 2017 L'Évangile, 100% Merlot for this first time, is just as impressive from bottle as it was from barrel. Dark fruit, spice, mocha, leather and licorice infuse the 2017 with notable depth. Time in the glass brings out lovely aromatic top notes that add freshness. A rapturously beautiful wine, L'Évangile is stellar. Frost wiped out half of the potential crop, including all of the Cabernet Franc, wich means the Gran Vin 100% Merlot.”

J-M Quarin (October 2020): 96/100 “Meticulous in its touch from the attack, then finely fat in the mid-palate, melting and fragrant, the wine takes on an extra dimension between the middle and the finish, to finish long, noble and above all unapproachable.”

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The 2015 vintage in the press:

Vinous (N. Martin - January 2019): 93/100 "The 2015 L'Évangile has a fragrant bouquet with blackberry, raspberry coulis, cedar, truffle, and lovely Pomerol traits coming through. The palate is well balanced with succulent red berry fruit, smooth in texture with sweet vanilla-y new oak toward the finish that will require a couple of years to fully subsume. This is a fine Pomerol."

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The 2012 vintage in the press:

Vinous (N. Martin - February 2022): 90/100 "The 2012 Château L'Évangile has a little more exoticism on the nose compared to the 2012 La Fleur de Gay that preceded it: dark chocolate and camphor scents, coalescing nicely with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins and acidity, sour cherries mixed with white pepper and a gentle grip with hints of leather towards the finish. I feel this has personality and Pomerol DNA, though it flirts with being overly exotic."

The 2022 vintage in the press:

Vinous (N. Martin - January 2025): 99/100 "Nöemie Durantou remarked that this vintage is the best she had ever know with respect to the Merlot, and given that the 2022 L'Eglise-Clinet contains 90% Merlot, that pre-empted a fabulous Pomerol. Durantou also mentionned that her wines were a little more"shy" compared to the previous day, though the bouquet only needed four of five minutes' coaxing before it unfolded with wonderfully delineated, focused scents of black cherries, peony, blood orange and crushed stone. Exquisitely balanced, the palate has a cashmere texture thanks to the pliant tannins, gaining density all the time. The finish is powerful and very sustained, disguising the 14.6% alcohol extremely well thanks to its countervailing acidic spine, though you feel a dab on the aftertaste. The 2022 is a L'Eglise-Clinet built for the long-term and continues the estate's stunning run of form."

J-M Quarin (February 2025): 99/100 "Deep, dark colour. Intense, fruity, raspberry-scented nose with a hint of truffle. A complex wine. Superb airy entry on the palate. Then the wine begins to melt, fat, with a black fruit flavour.Remarkably well-balanced, it evolves slowly, meticulously and deeply towards a long, complex, sappy finish with hints of black fruit and spice. All in all, a wine of great delicacy. It's superb and hard to spit out."

The 2021 vintage in the press:

La Revue du Vin de France (Guide 2025): 96/100 “This great wine captivates with its dimension, sharpness and precision. The generosity of style envelops citrus tension, all encircled by powdery tannins of great precision. It will keep for at least two decades. Here, density does not rhyme with muscle, but with tasty extract."

Vinous (A. Galloni - December 2023): 96/100 “The 2021 l'Eglise-Clinet is stellar. Dark, dense and also a touch somber, the 2021 is laced with generous black fruit, gravel, spice, new leather, licorice and incense. Readers will have to give this time to come together. I especially admire its substance, textural resonance and overall balance. Readers lucky enough to own the 2021 can look forward to years of exceptional drinking once the tannins soften a bit.”

The 2015 vintage in the press:

Vinous (N. Martin - January 2019): 95/100 "The 2015 Trotanoy has generous black cherry, blackberry, briary and white pepper aromas on the nose that seem to envelop the senses. There is just a hint of autumn bonfire in the background. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin, fresh and nicely poised. A dash of spice toward the peppery finish, hints of Chinese five-spice on the aftertaste. This is a serious and quite compelling Trotanoy for long-term aging, but hey, what's new? "

The 2012 vintage in the press:

Vinous (N. Martin - February 2022): 93/100 "The 2012 Trotanoy offers blackberry, liquorice and truffle oil on the nose, moderate intensity, and it gains complexity with aeration. The palate is well balanced with a fine bead of acidity, gentle grip, plenty of white pepper mixed with clove, though I am seeking just a bit more depth on the finish. Fine, and coming back after 10 minutes, it seels to grow in stature."

The 2012 vintage in the press:

Vinous (N. Martin - February 2020): 94+/100 "The 2010 Trotanoy is surly and backward on the nose, clearly a Pomerol demanding extended cellaring. The palate is medium-bodied, its bold tannic chassis just beginning to soften. This has a superb bead of acidity threaded through the bell pepper-tinged, tertiary black fruit with a gentle but insistent grip on the finish. This is clearly a Pomerol of real pedigree and I adore its truffly aftertaste. Excellent."

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The 2022 vintage in the press:

Vinous (A. Galloni - January 2025): 100/100 "The 2022 Vieux Château Certan is total stunner. Readers will find a magical wine, a Pomerol that satisfies both the intellectual and hedonistic senses. Vertical and explosive, with stunning presence, the 2022 VCC simply has it all. Time in the glass reveals myriad shades of nuance. Blue/purplish fruit, lavender, spice, menthol, licorice and plum literally soar out of the glass. The tannins are present but nearly buried by the wine's deep, layered fruit. But more than anything else, it is the balance, the total sense of harmony, that is most impressive. I simply can't ask anything more of the 2022, hence its lofty and well-deserved rating. Bravo!"

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The 2022 vintage in the press:

Vinous (A. Galloni - January 2025): 100/100 "The 2022 Vieux Château Certan is total stunner. Readers will find a magical wine, a Pomerol that satisfies both the intellectual and hedonistic senses. Vertical and explosive, with stunning presence, the 2022 VCC simply has it all. Time in the glass reveals myriad shades of nuance. Blue/purplish fruit, lavender, spice, menthol, licorice and plum literally soar out of the glass. The tannins are present but nearly buried by the wine's deep, layered fruit. But more than anything else, it is the balance, the total sense of harmony, that is most impressive. I simply can't ask anything more of the 2022, hence its lofty and well-deserved rating. Bravo! "

The 2021 vintage in the press:

La Revue du Vin de France (Guide 2025): 97/100 “A great wine that benefits from the balance of yesteryear, with a slender frame wrapped in luscious, fleshy fruit. On the nose, it's a festival, with irresistible mineral and iodine intensity. The palate is lengthened by the almost-Medoc-like tannins (23% Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon) that punctuate the finish.”.

Vinous (A. Galloni - February 2024) : 98/100 “ Vieux Château Certan 2021 could well be the wine of the vintage in the Right Bank. Intensely aromatic and nuanced, with exceptional balance, the 2021 is immediately classy. Of course, it doesn't have the richness or density of most previous vintages, but it more than makes up for it with sublime harmony and great freshness.”

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The 2015 vintage in the press:

En Magnum (2024): 98/100 “A magnificent encounter between power, opulence, freshness and intensity. A great vintage, combining great seduction, generosity and flavour”.

The 2021 vintage in the press:

La Revue du Vin de France (September 2024): 97/100 “After a series of powerful vintages, 2021 returns to a dashing style, where accessibility and delicacy are the key words, recalling the balance of the Bordeaux of thirty years ago, with today's technical precision. Proprietor Jacques Thienpont points out that his 2021 reminds him of the great success of his 1994, considered to be the best of the vintage. You can't help but fall under its spell, with a kind of immediacy, combining small black berries, potpourri and zan. The touch is remarkable, with taffeta-like tannins and a quasi-Ligerian balance”.

Vinous (A. Galloni - December 2023): 91/100 “The 2021 Le Pin has turned out beautifully. Elevage has done wonders in building texture. Dark, pliant and super-expressive, the 2021 is fabulous right out of the gate. Bright acids resonate on the striking finish. Black cherry, plum, leather, spice, graphite and jasmine lend an exotic flair. Time in the glass releases the aromatics. The 2021 is a gorgeous wine.”