2009 Pétrus

Community Tasting Notes (16) Avg Score: 96.5 points

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  5/15/2022 - Cailles wrote: 94 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: Intriguing nose with a strong herbal component, dark berries, ripe red fruits, some cola notes. The palate is wonderfully creamy, paired with superb freshness embedded in a fine tannin structure. Very balanced and round but probably only medium+ complex with layers of dark and red berries, crushed rocks and herbs. The only real downer is, that I also had some alcohol heat on the nose and palate. I’m very sensitive to these notes and don’t like it all and hence, this is not in the 95-100pts category for me. 94 pts. A bottle 3 years ago didn’t had that problem and was drinking on a 96 pts level.
  
  Decanting: My guess is that 2, 3 hours in the decanter are needed to bring more out.

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  5/11/2022 - Collector1855 wrote: 96 Points

  Petrus vs. Le Pin vs. Lafleur 2004-2011, blind (Fribourg): Lots of wild berries here on the nose, dark cherry as well. Then on the palate, lovely herbal elements come into play. Rich finish. Could be a bit fresher but very nice overall. 96+

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  5/9/2022 - sirpat00 Likes this wine: 98 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.
  
  Tasting note:
  Dense and concentrated bursting with sweet and sexy red berry fruit, blue berries, a bit of coffee, mocha, chocolate, mineral notes, earth and leather. On the palate fireworks from attack to finish, bold yet elegant, fresh and in perfect harmony. One of the highlights in the tasting and only bested by Le Pin of the same vintage!

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  1/31/2022 - Montesquieu wrote: 96 Points

  Austin 3-star food + wine; 1/30/2022-1/31/2022 (Our residence, Austin, TX): Very young, I know, but never pass an opportunity to try Petrus. Tasted alongside a 2006 Masseto, both of which were well decanted. I preferred the Masseto.

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  7/12/2021 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 95 Points

  A private dinner (Restaurant d'Oude Schuur, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium): Unformed, monolithic, big and very extracted, concentrated, incredibly young, enormous potential, powerful new oak, earth and clay, slightly tarry, red cherries, long. Nowhere near maturity. Very hard to score, but certainly not much fun today. Cautious score.

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