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Parker 99 points!
In all fairness, the last bottle in the vertical tasting I had of Petrus came from a pristinely stored magnum that I owned, so perhaps a regular bottle of this wine might be fading a bit. Nevertheless, this has always been the best wine of the vintage and a gorgeous example of Petrus. The wine shows considerable amber to its garnet color and has a sweet nose of coffee beans intermixed with cedar, herbs, black cherries, roa...
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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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The last good year of the 1960s was 1967, which turned out to be the exclusive pride of Sauternes. Although the Sauternes could still mature for another few decades, the wine is already extremely delicious right now. Many consider the Château d’Yquem to be one of the vineyard’s finest wines of all time. The only reds from this vintage worth mentioning are the Pétrus and La-Mission-Haut-Brion.