Tasting Notes
Robert Parker 89
Tasted at Benoit restaurant in New York. It has been five years since I last tasted this Petrus. Here in New York, the bottle is showing better than before. It has a fresh, lifted bouquet with wild strawberry mixed with cooked meat and that roasted chestnut that I have noticed before. The palate is medium-bodied and showing a little more weight than I recall, although it is still very foursquare and conservative. There is a sense of breeding and elegance here, but it is not translated into complexity or length. I suspect it would struggle to compete against Lafleur ’83, but it remains a serviceable Petrus that should be drunk over the next decade. Tasted April 2013.
