90+ points John Gilman (View From the Cellar): "For many years the Roty Ouzeloy was my 'go to' wine in the village and I have bought and drunk cases of this wine with great pleasure in many previous vintages. The 2009 Ouzeloy is excellent, offering up a deep and nicely reserved bouquet of black cherries, cassis, grilled meat, coffee bean, a touch of iodine, lovely soil tones and spicy wood. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, complex and ripely tannic, with a superb core of fruit, fine focus and a very long, youthful finish. This will need several years to blossom, but it too will be an outstanding wine and a great value. 2017-2040. (Jun 2012)"

89 points Allen Meadows (Burghound): "(from 80+ year old vines). A subtle application of toast presently sits atop black cherry, plum and warm earth aromas that precede the supple and more refined medium-bodied flavors that possess ample amounts of dry extract as well as fine volume, all wrapped in a sappy and unusually persistent and mildly woody finish. This certainly possesses fine underlying material but I suspect that it will always be slightly toasty. I bother to point this out because while the toast is not intense enough to affect the wine's balance, it is a character that definitely isn't neutral. Drink: 2016+. (Jan 2012)"