Tasting Notes
Vinous – 94
The 2015 Petrus is elegant, pure and almost Burgundian on the nose. This has plush, superbly delineated red fruit aromas mixed with blood orange and wilted rose petals. The palate is medium-bodied with a velvety texture that caresses the mouth. There's a little more extraction perhaps. It's more modern in style but this pulls it off. Tasted blind at the 2015 Bordeaux Ten-Year-On tasting.
Anticipated maturity: 2027-2047
JancisRobinson.com – 16
Tasted blind. Very transparent. Hint of cocoa on the nose. Very light in terms of impact. Dusty, pinched finish. Not a great pleasure. Rather unappetising and stringy. (When the identity of this wine was revealed I wondered whether this was a perfect bottle.) (JR)
Anticipated maturity: 2025-2036
Robert Parker – 100
"When I asked winemaker Olivier Berrouet about his greatest challenges in 2015, he replied, a oeOur biggest challenge is to avoid all the temptations you can have in the vineyard and in the cellar. You can go too far. With our job, if you go too far, you can’t go back. Little steps are best."" His comments eloquently explain the immense pressure of handling a seemingly pressure-less vintage like 2015 in Pomerol. But, with the devil in all the many details that are involved in the pursuit of wine perfection, if anyone has that devil by the horns, it is this incredibly talented young winemaker. Medium to deep garnet-purple in color, the 2015 Petrus (bottled in mid-July 2017) opens in its own time to reveal crushed black cherries, warm plums, mulberries and cedar chest suggestions with touches of anise, lavender, beef drippings and wild thyme plus a waft of crushed rocks. Medium to full-bodied, it fills the palate with generous, exuberant, wonderfully layered red, black and perfumed blue fruits contrasted beautifully by very ripe, very fine-grained and very firm tannins plus an ethereal line of seamless acid, finishing long and minerally. Olivier Berrouet and his team have knocked it out of the park in 2015. Look for this Petrus to build and unfold over the next 20 years and confidently cellar this legend for 40+ years."
Anticipated maturity: 2024-2058
