2006 Pétrus

Community Tasting Notes (13) Avg Score: 94.4 points

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  3/22/2023 - MOWineBoston Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Dinner Maison Pavlov March 22 2023. Way too young to drink now IMHO, should be probably double decanted / let slow ox for 5-6 hrs min. Lots of fruits and lacking in smoothness IMHO.

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  1/21/2023 - Sacramento Geezer Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Opened/decanted at 11:00, and double decanted at 6:30 after first taste showed wine in very strong place. The three of us all enjoyed, marveled with charcuterie and antipasto.
  
  This was distinctly different from any Left or Right Bank I’ve ever tasted—deeper, more solid, lasting, intense—je ne sais quois. I’ll default to Wine Enthusiast Barrel sample: “The freshness of 2006 is here in abundance. But because it is Pétrus, those deliciously lively black fruits are backed up with a formidable battery of tannins and concentration. But never extracted, always properly restrained.”
  
  Likely my only lucky day with St. Peter but one for the memories.

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  11/17/2022 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 96 Points

  Pétrus dinner (Restaurant Sinck, Amsterdam, NL): Double decanted. The extraction is quite firm, is it a child of its day, the tannins are quite dusty but they are not overdone and their texture has a very fine grain; there is real energy here and there is a lovely sweetness to the fruit, balance and freshness are exemplary, resonance and length are impressive. Needs more time, but the component parts are all there, nothing is out of place. Revisit in 5-10 years.

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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: Quite ripe, not overly-well defined nose with ripe dark fruit, some cola and herbs. Better on the palate which shows quite fresh and round, creamy yet with enough tension. Cool blue fruit, ripe dark red fruit, some spices and crushed rocks. Quite nice, round and complete with fine tannins. No superstar but probably a superstar of the vintage. 92/93 pts.
  
  Decanting: A short 1-2 hours should do the job.

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  5/11/2022 - Collector1855 wrote: 92 Points

  Petrus vs. Le Pin vs. Lafleur 2004-2011, blind (Fribourg): Tertiary nose, a bit tired, torrefaction, in the brown spectrum. On the palate ripe with some oak and plum. Like all other 2006 tonight, not very convincing and by far the weakest vintage.

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