1995 Château La Fleur-Pétrus

Community Tasting Notes (60) Avg Score: 93.4 points

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  4/13/2024 - dream Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Really elegant and minerally wine. Very fine and chiseled with notes of graphite and black truffles. Commanderie BYOB Pomerol Dinner.

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  1/1/2024 - gris Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Needed more air time; asking to be decanted.

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  11/27/2023 - Rani Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Lots of green bell pepper and black fruit on the nose. Powdery tannins, a bit tight, nice acidity and concentration but lacking a bit of oomph to be great and balance out. Good length.

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  11/27/2023 - Rani wrote: flawed

  Badly corked - had another bottle that wasn’t…

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  9/22/2023 - ProfAvi Likes this wine: 94 Points

  1 bottle bought as part of my 60th birthday case.
  Opened and decanted to remove fine sediment.
  Cork - clean as a whistle with no signs of age.
  Dregs poured and sniffed.
  Amazingly still some primary fruit - think dark red / black fruits like plum and cherry. Soon gives way to notes of stewed dark fruits.
  Poured a glass after 30 minutes from the decanter.
  Strikingly clear, medium intensity and garnet in colour. At 28 years old holding up well.
  On the nose more cooked fruit, leather, with a spicy herbaceousness. From the Cab Franc perhaps?
  On the palate, more dark fruits, spice, a touch of soy/ hoisin(?) with a rich, long finish.
  
  Will see how it develops over the evening.
  
  After two hours, and a couple of glasses, the nose has shifted with some violet, cut flower notes, but then so has my perception! With a bit of tobacco on the palate.
  
  In terms of PQR, I had a Pessac-Leognan 2010 from Haut-Bergey for a fraction of the price that offered more than enough for my amateur palate.
  
  However, all things considered a lovely wine.
  This is not a wine to analyse but to savour and enjoy, to bask in how it makes you feel, not what you think about it.

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