2008 Pétrus

Community Tasting Notes (17) Avg Score: 95.6 points

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  12/5/2022 - Collector1855 wrote: 95 Points

  Salon Focofi Paris walkabout and dinner, so no detailed tasting notes. Had this from teo bottles, the first one was overripe and oxidative, the second better. Rich wine, feels young still.

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  12/5/2022 - steinersing wrote: 95 Points

  With time to breathe this is showing very well. Elegant and long.

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  11/17/2022 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 97 Points

  Pétrus dinner (Restaurant Sinck, Amsterdam, NL): Double decanted. It reminds me of 2012 in the sense that it has a lighter and more transparent style, floral and pure, and that it expresses its vintage with great precision, but the terroir adds a grace and charm which few wines are capable of. On the nose the tannins are ever so slightly dusty, and on the palate they provide more grip than in the 2012, they are firm and very finely grained but not drying, the texture is silky and fresh, there is a lot of power that needs more time to unfold, the finish has lovely energy and length. Lovely now, has much to gain.

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  5/15/2022 - Cailles wrote: 90 Points

  6 Vintages Le Pin vs Petrus vs Lafleur vs Other Pomerol: All wines tasted single blind, not decanted. Served in 6 vintage flights with a alternating 4th Pomerol added to every flight. A few observations: 1) Le Pin handily won this tasting, for me (4 out of 6 vintages at 96/97 pts) and the consensus. Made in a charming way, with loads of perfectly integrated, luxurious oak-derived notes, this wines drink well young and works very well in a larger tasting like this were you can’t follow the wines over an evening. Complex, round, intense, sexy yet elegant. 2) Lafleur came in second, despite mostly only hinting at its potential with very high complexity, it’s wonderful, typical herbal and earthy notes, all embedded in an impeccable, light structural frame. But they need time. 3) Most vintages of Petrus underperformed tonight (all below 95 pts). They would have needed more time to open up and come together. 4) 2009/10 vintages are great and unsurprisingly got the highest scores, 2008 confirmed it status as a Bdx vintage that is excellent to drink today. More information/rankings in the tasting story.
  
  TN: Over-extracted, a bit of heat, very ripe fruit, very extracted, slightly drying. This doesn’t warrant 90 pts but on the other hand it showed quite complex, especially on the palate with a beautiful minerality backbone. Some said this to be slightly lactic and faulty, I didn’t get that but still, no winner.

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  5/11/2022 - Collector1855 wrote: flawed

  Petrus vs. Le Pin vs. Lafleur 2004-2011, blind (Fribourg): Dark fruit, ripe, over-ripe even with some oxidative notes. A hint of brett as well. The palate had some maggi beef stock notes. We concluded that this bottle is unfortunately suffering from oxidation. The owner said that this case which he bought en primeur had two more bottles with this issue while the others were good. Shame on Petrus for such a lousy ratio. NR

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