Pétrus

This wine is more tightly knit more tannic but every bit the blockbuster concentrated effort that its younger sibling the 1990 is. It seems to need more coaxing from the glass but the color is virtually identical a dense ruby/purple... Read More

Tasted at Hof van Cleve in Belgium. The 1990 has one of those bouquets where a choir of angels seem to sing from heaven when you take you first sniff. It is utterly compelling with crystalline dark fruits truffle and even an outrageous... Read More

The Petrus 2005 might not be the cheapest wine that has ever been made but if somebody else is paying it will blow you away. Unsurprisingly it is bestowed with a more nuanced bouquet than the Le Pin ’05. It is beautifully defined... Read More

It is hard to call Petrus a “sleeper of the vintage� but the 2008 will merit more attention than most consumers would think. Low yields of 30 hectoliters per hectare resulted in only 25000 bottles of this beauty. A wine of... Read More

Deep garnet colored the 2010 Petrus opens a little broody with gentle crushed rocks cast iron pan and fragrant earth notions giving way to a core plum preserves baked blueberries licorice and Black Forest cake plus wafts of pencil... Read More

The 2014 Petrus was tasted on the same morning as the 2014 Vieux-Château-Certan and though they are built from different blends their personalities are quite similar. This is a succinct not powerful much more refined and... Read More

Deep garnet-purple in color the 2017 Petrus comes galloping out of the glass with bold expressive notions of Black Forest cake blueberry preserves and Christmas pudding with nuances of molten chocolate Chinese five spice candied... Read More

Deep garnet-purple in color the 2017 Petrus comes galloping out of the glass with bold expressive notions of Black Forest cake blueberry preserves and Christmas pudding with nuances of molten chocolate Chinese five spice candied... Read More