May 4, 2024 - Regular dinner group (By JvT in Pommard, Burgundy.): Beautiful bouquet with dark berries like blueberries and licorice. Same on the palate, dark berries and some raspberries, still youthful juice and really complex and aristocratic. Enormous length and not a bit too old yet. Harmonious and extremely beautiful.
April 7, 2024 - Might have been the perfect bottle.
April 9, 2023 - Very elegant, light but with personality. Very impressed and was perfect with the lamb.
December 29, 2021 - Ex-chateau. Much better after an hour of decanting. Elegant floral notes. Marshmallows. I love this!
July 22, 2021 - First bottle of Petrus, so pls excuse whatever drivel follows. Distinctive nose of spice and blueberry. Refreshing yet serious. Medium body, lighter than I expected. Texture uniquely silky, albeit perhaps not AS utterly unique as I had built it up...probably the fault of this Petrus' novice building it up in my mind (this was my first-ever bottle of Petrus, drank with the wife.) Popped and poured some to be safe first, then decanted the rest when it became apparent wine at least wasn't getting worse in glass. Good decision: wine in glass and decanted evolved, texture seemed to get silkier, dark flowers, cherry and chocolate emerge. But never out of balance.
Never overbearing. Others have described weightlessness and I agree on the description. Texture very distinct vs. what I'm familiar with in Bordeaux (extensive left bank, less right bank). Robust and complete palate but without being "dense" or intense. Structure bang-on, so much that you don't even notice it, just effortlessly holding up the wine on your balance, acid, tannins and fruit in harmony. I would describe this wine as masculine beauty.
Wine evolved - but never declined - for 60-90 minutes and as we slowly enjoyed. Not sure where this is at its drinking window, but I'm comfortable saying this is nowhere near "done" and has plenty of years of drinking ahead. Whether it will improve further or not is best left for others with good fortune ($ or otherwise!) to drink Petrus more often than once every blue moon.....aka those with more experience drinking it than me here.
May 27, 2020 - Another good showing for this wine. So much lift, grace and sweetness that's completely free of the unwanted flavors. No lead, no nuttiness. Majestic.
December 19, 2019 - Sweet, rubbery aromatics. Weightless palate.
May 3, 2019 - While the fruit was a little dusty, this provided a full dose of soil. A sublte but complete nose here dark floral notes and dark spice. 93-94
March 2, 2019 - An Epic Vertical of Petrus (Ten Trinity Latour Club, London): This wine was stunning. A gorgeous nose of blueberries and chocolate. The mouthfeel is otherworldly with gorgeous velvety tannins.
November 10, 2018 - Bottle purchased at release and held since. Popped and decanted for sediment, tasted then served 30 mins later.
There appears to be a lot of bottl variation with these; happily I had one of the outstanding ones. Deep and long, medium bodied with full mouthfeel. Noted chocolate and berry notes. Seemed more secondary. Still kicking 18 hours later.
If you have one of the good bottles they will hold for another decade plus.