2010 Pétrus

Community Tasting Notes (13) Avg Score: 95.5 points

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  2/29/2024 - glou.sf Likes this wine: 94 Points

  From magnum. Deep, dark, and incredibly concentrated nose with dark fruit, tobacco, spices, and tar. The palate is similar with dark berries, cherries, a hint of chocolate, more spices, and underwood. Finish is quite long. A massive wine that feels very extracted and concentrated, although I didn't feel it was out of balance, just a profile that may not be everyone's cup of tea. I would love to see how this evolves, but I doubt I will get the chance... 94+

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  5/15/2022 - Cailles wrote: 93 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: This Petrus had a tough stand after the fantastic Le Pin in the glass before. It showed much less expressive, especially on the nose which almost was non-existent. A bottle two years back (rated 95 pts) showed more open. Luckily, the palate had more to give with ripe dark berries, some hints of chocolate, minerality and a refreshing herbal component. But never as open and complex as the Le Pin or the Lafleur. The wine had a good freshness, good balance, nice creaminess but the tannins didn’t seem fully ready and will need more time to soften. My guess is that this would have needed a lot of time in the decanter to shine although some in our group seemed to like it much more than I did.
  
  Decanting: My guess is that 3-4 hours in a decanter would have helped here.

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  5/11/2022 - Collector1855 wrote: 95 Points

  Petrus vs. Le Pin vs. Lafleur 2004-2011, blind (Fribourg): Dark and ripe fruit, darker and riper than the others. Same on the palate, really dark and dense, may be a bit too ripe? I don't know but surely this needs time as well. Dont open before 2028. 95+

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  5/9/2022 - sirpat00 wrote: 92 Points

  Pétrus vs Lafleur vs Le Pin (Fribourg): 6 vintage face-off (2006-2011) Pétrus vs Lafleur vs Le Pin vs alternating Pomerol pirate. The wines were served in vintage flights of 4 and not decanted. Main observations were: 1/ Le Pin knocked it out of the park coming in first in 4 out of 6 vintages while Pétrus came in last with not a single vintage win (Lafleur came in best in two off-vintages, 2006 and 2008), 2/ The best overall vintage was 2009 (runner-up 2010) while 2006 came in last (scoring range 85-92), 3/ best bottle was Le Pin 2009 (99), followed by Pétrus 2010 and Le Pin 2010 (98 each), 4/ best pirate was Clos L’Eglise 2009 (97). List of wines per score included in the tasting story.
  
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  Felt a bit heavy-handed in terms of oak deployment. Pretty extracted with the fruit leaning towards plum. Some fresher herbal layers. Quite a brute at this stage. The palate more fruity and fresh, but not really expressive with the last few drops exhibiting a nice sense of purity.

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  12/24/2021 - 9400KG wrote:

  Na

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