92 pts - Wine Advocate
["This wine is closed, backward, and marginally less impressive than I thought from cask. It is still an outstanding l’Evangile that may prove to be longer-lived than the sumptuous 1990, but perhaps not as opulently-styled. It remains one of the year’s’s
94 pts - Wine Spectator
["Well structured yet elegant and refined. Complex aromas of violets, berries and spice. Full-bodied and very velvety, with a smoke, berry and cherry aftertaste. Best from 2004 through 2009. –JS WS"]
93 pts - Vinous
["Deep red-ruby. Deep, superripe, fully expressed aromas of black raspberry, chocolate, smoke and leather, plus a ripe vegetal nuance that contributes complexity. Velvety, lush and full in the mouth, but rather closed following the bottling; the wine swee