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Country ranking ?
690
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Producer ranking ?
29
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Decanting time
2h
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When to drink
now to 2025
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Food Pairing
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Food Pairing
Herb Roasted Prime Rib
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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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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%
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3 760€
+2.2%
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3 680€
+11.9%
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3 289€
+5.5%
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3 117€
+16.4%
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2 677€
-16.8%
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3 219€
+21.2%
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2 655€
+56.4%
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1 698€
+18.6%
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1 432€
+126.2%
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633€
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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.
Latest Pro-tasting notes
15 tasting notes
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).
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.
Healthy colour. Sweet and stylish. A bit more lightweight than previous bottles. Unknown négociant bottle.
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.
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.
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Information
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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