Description

Drinking Petrus may be an unforgettable experience. We have been lucky to have the opportunity to taste most of its great vintages. That is why wine enthusiasts often come to us for advice. First, we advise you to choose a good vintage, an excellent one if your wallet allows. If you taste a poor vintage, you will notice how it raises abouve most other wines of the same vintage, but you will miss the actual point of Petrus.
Second, purchase wine that is at least 10 to 20 years old, because young Petrus is difficult to approach, besides which oak and tananins predominate in its taste. Young Petrus may be impressive, but it ages fantastically and requiresmore time that any other Pomerl wine to reach its culmination. Finally, we would advies you to decant the wine with care and well in advance, and also give ti time to develop in the flass. Then you will have the opportunity to enjoy and unforgettable experience.

Little known 50 years ago, this chateau has seen the rise of a myth about the uniqueness of its wine. The wine s inimatibility is due to many factors, first of all, an exceptional terroir – 40 meters above seal lever, the highest point of the appellation – with a layer of heavy clay soil and an iron subsoil. These are ideal conditions for the expression of the Merlot grape. With such a special terroir, the approach to the vineyard and cellar is traditional and respectful.

The work done in the vineyard is fastidious – severe pruning in the winter, regular ploughing, crop-thinning, de-leafing, manicuring the clusters in the summer – and allows the perfect ripening of the fruit. The approach in the vineyard and cellar is traditional and respectful.

Fermentation is carried out gently, without any overextraction, in temperature-controlled concrete tanks. The blend, very often pure Merlot, is defined in December and the young wine is aged in 100% new oak barrels.

This property made famous by Edmond Loubat and then my Monsieur Jean-Peirre Moueix, culminates at 130 feet on the plateau of Pomerl. Jean-Moueix is responsible for the cultivation, vinification, and ageing as well as the export distribution of Petrus Wines.

The vineyard of Petrus is very small, only just over 11 hectares and the chateau is a small unspectacular building. This is typical for Pomerol. Whereas the top properties in Medoc were owned by nobility, wealthy financiers and powerful wine merchants who enlarged their vineyards over centuries adding impressive mansions to match the reputation of the wines and their owners, the typical properties in Pomerol were much smaller and owned by local families living and farming the wines themselves.
The phenomenonal rise in reputation of the wines of Petrus and its prices is quite recent – it did not obtain higher prices that a second or third growth from Medoc until the 1960s. It was the 1982 vintage that really set the prices for Petrus soaring – in the spring of 1983 it was sold at the same price as the premier crus but only a year later it was traded at more than twice the price of these. It now sells at about four times that of Mouton or Cheval Blanc – two of the superstars of the vintage.

Bordeauxs most intensely concentrated, richly flavored and unique red wine. An incredible power, depth and richness yet a remarkable balance with penetrating aromas of ripe mulberry, black currant and fruit and spicy vanilla oak, setting it apart from all Bordeauxs finest wines.

Critical Acclaim

WS94
Wine Spectator
Wild aromas of crushed fruit, forest flower and wild mushrooms. Full-bodied, with incredibly velvety tannins that go on and on. Lovely and exciting fruit. Gorgeous, seductive wine. Hard to resist now. Better than I remember.– 95 96 Bordeaux retrospective. Best after 2007.