Clear garnet. Enticingly sweet though dry-toned aromas, like a summer wind blowing through grasses and flowers. Shy sweet fruits behind: toffeed blackberries.

Black-purple; markedly darker than the 2003 Pétrus.

Saturated black; little sign as yet of any sort of evolution. Aromatically complete.

Clear garnet red. Enticingly sweet though dry-toned aromas, like a summer wind blowing through grasses and flowers. Shy sweet fruits behind: toffeed blackberries.

Brick-red but still deeply coloured; no browning or attentuation. Astonishing, almost puzzling aromas: sweet mint, pea soup, sweet decay. The spoor of fruit now lost. Beautiful, but enigmatic.