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  • Country ranking ?

    693
  • Producer ranking ?

    29
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    now to 2025
  • Food Pairing

    Herb Roasted Prime Rib

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The Story

Drinking Pétrus may be an unforgettable experience. We has 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, WeI 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 above most other wines of the same vintage, but you will miss the actual point of Pétrus.

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Wine Information

When the 1950s rolled around, vineyards and their production equipment were still in poor condition. The economy was faltering and ageing grapevines were decreasing vineyard productivity. Considerably higher prices were paid on the world market for top wines from Mosel and Rheingau as well as Burgundy, thus giving an idea as to the esteem in which Bordeaux wines were held. The demand for Bordeauxs had bottomed out. The greatest demand for them...

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Average Bottle Price

2023 2020 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2005 2000 1995
3 890€ +3.5% 3 760€ +2.2% 3 680€ +11.9% 3 289€ +5.5% 3 117€ +16.4% 2 677€ -16.8% 3 219€ +21.2% 2 655€ +56.4% 1 698€ +18.6% 1 432€ +126.2% 633€

This data comes from the FINE Auction Index, a composite of average prices for wines sold at commercial auctions in 20 countries. The average prices from each year have been collected since 1990. This chart plots the index value of the average price of the wines.

Tasting note

color

Deep and Healthy

ending

Medium, Smooth and Lingering

flavors

Blackberry and Vanilla

nose

Intense, Generous, Ripe and Seductive

recommend

Yes

taste

Complex, Balanced, Unbalanced, Weak, Harmonious, Rich, Ripe and Sweet

Written Notes

Speaking of perfection, the 1950 Petrus was close.  It was deep, dark and rich with a minty freshness, not like that California mint, though.  There was a blueberry appeal here to go with fresh and honeyed flavors.  This was a perfect bottle, both rich and creamy.  It was so plummy and tasty, and its sexy motor oil ignited everyone’s palate.  This was a blueberry bomb that delivered the rarely experienced legend of 1950 Right Bank wines (98).

  • 98p
1950 Château Pétrus Deep brownish red developed colour. Elegant and very complex nose full of promise: bell pepper, leather, tar, mint, licorice, black olives, earthiness, beef stock and toffee. However, the medium bodied palate is already losing its fruit and charm. The tired mouth-feel is smooth with fully matured tannin. Enjoyable today but the wine will no longer improve.
  • 95p
Healthy colour. Sweet and stylish. A bit more lightweight than previous bottles. Unknown négociant bottle.
  • 93p
Deep brownish red developed colour. Elegant nose full of promise: bell pepper, leather, tar, beef stock and toffee. However, the medium bodied palate is already losing its fruit and charm. The tired mouth-feel is smooth with fully matured tannin. Enjoyable today but the wine will no longer improve.
  • 89p
Deep brownish red developed colour. Elegant and very complex nose full of promise: bell pepper, leather, tar, mint, licorice, black olives, earthiness, beef stock and toffee. However, the medium bodied palate is already losing its fruit and charm. The tired mouth-feel is smooth with fully matured tannin. Enjoyable today but the wine will no longer improve.
  • 89p
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Information

Origin

Bordeaux, Pomerol

Vintage Quality

Excellent

Value For Money

Good

Investment potential

Average

Fake factory

Serious

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Inside Information

Wine Advocate #95
Oct 1994
Robert M. Parker, Jr. 99 Drink: 1994 - 2024 $4505-$7919 (2200)
Tasted 3 Times With Consistent Notes

It was the extraordinary 1950 Petrus, along with the 1950 Lafleur, first served to me years ago by Jean-Pierre Moueix, that made me realize how spectacular this vintage must have been in Pomerol. The wine is still a young, mammothly-constituted Petrus that is less evolved than more recent knock-out vintages such as 1961. Massive and rich, with spectacular color saturation and the sweet, unctuous texture Petrus obtains in ripe years, this wine will last for another 20-30 years. 
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