1985 Petrus, Pomerol, Bordeaux

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Colour Red

Sweetness Dry

Vintage 1985

Alcohol % 12.6%

Maturity Ready - mature (1995 - 2027)

Grape List Merlot

Body Full Bodied

Producer Petrus

Critics reviews

Jancis Robinson MW 18/20

Magnum kindly given to me to commemorate his father by Edmund Penning-Rowsell Jr. Shared to celebrate E P-R's centenary. Dark vibrant blackish ruby. Heady and immediately glamorous nose. Straight from the magnum a bit austere though with no shortage of density. Briary. Not as luscious and sweet as many Petrus vintages are but utterly in character for E P-R.

I suspect he would have approved of this rather Medocain rendition. Impressive on the finish. Needs to open out a bit. Two hours later from the decanter: Gloriously rich and expansive and much more typically Petrus. A very rewarding Pomerol with a combination of sweetness and lifted leafiness. Not the most opulent vintage but extremely satisfying. Note the alcohol level.

Drink 1998 - 2028

Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com (Apr 2013)

About this wine

Pomerol

With 150 or so producers and roughly 740 hectares of vineyards, the smallest of Bordeaux's major appellations is home to myriad bijou domaines – many making little more than 1,000 cases per annum. If the topography and architecture of Pomerol are typical, the style of its wines is anything but. The best vineyards are planted on a seam of rich clay extending across the raised plateau of Pomerol from the boundary of St Emilion.

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