Petrus 2022

Bewertungen

• 100/100

  The Wine Cellar Insider
  Dried flowers, violets, black and blue fruits, Asian spices, truffle, smoke, and licorice permeate the aromatic profile. On the palate, the wine is seductive, sensuous, long, rich, and sexy. The purity of the fruit is striking, with its perfect balance of power and elegance. Once the fruit touches your palate, the wine unfolds in all four directions, with increasing warmth and intensity. The finish, which crosses the 60-second mark with ease, leaves you with layers of truffle-accented black cherries, plums, blueberries, and spice. The wine is perfectly balanced, seamless, and well, perfect. Drink from 2030-2070."

• 100/100

  Falstaff
  Tiefdunkles Rubingranat, opaker Kern, violette Reflexe, zarte Randaufhellung. Feine Trüffelnuancen, schwarze Kirschen, Lakritze, ein Hauch von süßen Gewürzen, vermittelt eine große Frische, Komplex, stoffig, reife rote Waldbeeren, kraftvolle, eingebundene Tannine, seidig und anhaftend, salzig im Abgang,, vermittelt eine enorme Länge, mineralisch und anhaftend, tolles Reifepotenzial, rotbeerig-zitronige Nuancen im langen Nachhall, könnte man sofort genießen, sichere Zukunft für Jahrzehnte."

• 20/20

  Weinwisser
  99 % Merlot, 1 % Cabernet Franc: 14.5 Vol.-%., pH: 3.6. 20 hl/ha, 18.000 Flaschen. Fermentation im Zement, 50 % Neuholz. Lese: 01. bis 07.09. (zum Vergleich 2021: 30.09 bis 09.10.). Ein wie früher dichtfarbiger Petrus (anders als 2021). Herrlich sinnlich anmutender Duft, sehr fokussiert mit floralen Noten wie Veilchen und lila Blumen (Lilac), reifen roten Beeren, Wildkirschen und roten Johannisbeeren, dazu eine herrliche Lakritznote. Im Mund hoch elegant mit perfekt geformtem (Adonis-)Körper, mit weichen, finessenreichen Konturen, reichhaltig und verführerisch samtig und doch ungemein finessenreich und mit mineralischen Aspekten. Ein nach dem schlanken Petrus wieder sinnlich-konzentrierter Wein mit seidiger Textur und finessenreichem, pikantem, enorm langem Finale."

• 100/100

  James Suckling
  I am amazed by the freshness and blue fruits here in such a hot year. So much crunchy forest-fruit character like strawberries and raspberries with fantastic peaches and orange peel. Black olives and cloves. Full-bodied yet framed and formed with extremely silky tannins and great beauty. Superbalanced and incredible for the vintage. The ethereal quality of this wine is truly wonderful. Best after 2029."

• 99+/100

  The Wine Advocate
  The 2022 Pétrus has turned out even better than I anticipated en primeur, displaying breathtaking purity and integration. Unwinding in the glass with aromas of mulberries, minty cherries, rose petals and violets, it's full-bodied, dense and layered, with huge depth at the core, sweet, powdery tannins and a long, resonant finish. This is a profound Pétrus in the making that exemplifies controlled power. Olivier Berrouet opted to shorten the time in barrel by a couple of months to preserve vibrancy."

• 99/100

  Wine Enthusiast
  The ripe black fruits show in the exuberant blackberry aroma. That translates into a magnificent wine with a mixture of ripe plum flavors and a cushioned structure. It is elegant and powerful at the same time. Drink from 2029."

• 99/100

  Lisa Perrotti-Brown
  This is 100% Merlot as it has been for many years now, and it started life with a short 17-day cuvaison, and gentle remontage and no pigeage, to control the extraction. The élevage was in 50% new oak, the remaining 50% second-fill barrels first used in 2020, with 16 months in barrel in total. A remarkable colour in the glass, dark mulberry, concentrated yet not opaque. Smoky berry fruits follow on the nose, with dark chocolate and bramble, liquorice with a touch of sage and fragrant iris root complexity. There is a little caramelised oak as well, but this will fade. Coming back to it more smoky complexities emerge, with notes of raspberry, violet and a touch of toasted coffee bean. This all precedes a palate with a generous texture, velvety although not dense or overly extracted, merely polished, finessed, complete, confident, with a beautifully integrated backbone of tannins, barely noticeable at first, and then apparent at the finish, wrapped around black fruit skins and oak. A great vintage for Petrus, with nicely balanced acidity adding freshness, and I can see this evolving over many decades. This is one feather all Petrus-lovers will want to have in their cap. The alcohol is declared to be 14.5%."

• 99/100

  Decanter
  An explosion of aromatics - vibrant, perfumed, and alive. Dried herbs, violets, and cherries lead the nose, more floral than fruity at this stage, with cooling blue fruits, inkiness, and a hint of cola. Sun-kissed blackcurrants, damsons, and plums bring richness, yet there’s a refreshing lift. The palate is succulent and mouthwatering, with juicy clarity and a soft liquorice grip from the tannins. Sleek yet powerful, its structure stretches but never overwhelms. Vibrant, joyful, and effortlessly complete, with an interplay of concentration and acidity that makes it utterly compelling. A wine that brings a smile, pure finesse on show and amazingly complete at this stage 3.65pH. Ageing was two months shorter than usual."

• 98+/100

  Jeb Dunnuck
  The 2022 Château Pétrus is a powerhouse as well as one of the most concentrated wines in the vintage. Harvested on September 1 (the earliest harvest since 2003), this deep purple-hued beauty offers an inward yet layered bouquet of ripe black cherries, currants, woodsmoke, chocolate, and truffly earth. This carries to a quintessential Petrus offering full-bodied richness and depth as well as flawless balance. There's no shortage of structure, and it has a dense mid-palate, ripe, building tannins and a gorgeous finish. It gains purity and freshness as it sits in the glass, but this a wine that demands a solid decade, if not more, of bottle age and will be just about immortal."

• 97/100

  Wine Spectator
  There's a reserve to the very singular expression of plum, mulberry and boysenberry compote flavors that drive along without flinching in this version, which features a polished structure and a subtle tug of cold clay that provides a seamless, deftly inlaid grounding wire. But this is pretty much the fruit, the whole fruit and nothing but the fruit. Drink now through 2045."

• 18,5/20

  Jancis Robinson
  Deep crimson colour. Fragrant but fresh with a dominance of red fruit. Palate round, juicy and seductive, the matière dense and tannins so fine they don’t seem to be there. Long, lingering finish with an almost chalky freshness. Moreish but measured, the balance just right."