Deep, spicy and earthy, but with plenty of cabernet sauvignon cassis aroma and solid tannins giving it a serious structure. It's not the most polished Médoc of the vintage, but there's plenty of concentration and energy driving the long firm finish. Give it more time. Try after 2021.

I continue to just love the 2009 Château Rauzan-Ségla. It's such a classic Margaux, remarkable for its elegance and purity yet still showing classic 2009 depth, richness, and sexiness. Giving up loads of crème de cassis, green tobacco, cedar pencil, chocolate, and hints of incense, it's flawlessly balanced and has sweet tannin, integrated acidity, and a great finish. It's drinking at point today yet has another two decades of longevity ahead of it. It's a beautiful wine.

Grilled sandalwood and spice set against elegant and cool blue and black fruit, giving a lovely contrast in terms of flavours and textures, and an excellent reflection of a vintage that keeps getting better and better. This feels balanced and finessed, and full of Rauzan-Ségla signature. 50% new oak, 41hl/h yield, harvest September 22 to October 11. John Kolasa director.

The truffle, cigar box, cedar, floral, citrus and dark red fruit notes are almost at their secondary stage. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, silky, fresh, rich and supple. The berries and floral character with their sweetness and lift feels as good as it tastes. With 2 hours in the decanter, this is a stunner, else wait about 5 more years and drink over the next 2 decades with ease.

A rich and opulent wine very ripe packed with luscious blackberry and damson fruit as well as sweet tannins. It is a fruit salad of fruit flavors given structure by a core of dryness. Already a gorgeous wine but one that will also age.

The 2009 vintage saw pretty ideal temperatures from beginning to end. This is a truly lovely wine which I also experienced recently at the 10 years on tasting in London, where it was highly seductive - and it's even better here. There are some notes of evolution here, with tobacco, soft leather, brambly red fruits and touches of exotic spice. You could drink it now - it's less aloof than the 2010 - but it will age, and there's no question that this will be a thrilling, delicious, gulpable wine. Harvest ran from 22 September to 11 October, with a yield of 41hl/ha. 3.69pH.

Deep garnet colored, the 2009 Rauzan-Ségla bursts from the glass with bold, vivacious Black Forest cake, blackberry pie and warm blueberry scents plus nuances of cardamom, candied violets, smoked meats and Chinese five spice with a waft of dusty soil. Full-bodied, rich, plush and decadent, it completely coats the palate with densely packed preserved black berries layers, finishing very long and spicy. The blend this year is 58% Cabernet Sauvignon and 42% Merlot, harvested between September 22nd and October 11th, at an average yield of 41 hectoliters per hectare. It was aged for 18 months in French oak, 50% new. The alcohol is 14%, and the pH is 3.69. - Lisa Perrotti-Brown

A very toasty style with lots of caressing plum sauce melted licorice and warm fig flavors splayed out over polished rounded structure. Picks up some grip and tar on the finish but stays clearly on the modern side with its noticeable reliance on toast. Best from 2014 through 2026. Tasted twice with consistent notes. -JM