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100 RP. "Tasted 12 times with consistent notes. The 1961 Petrus is consistently a perfect wine. Fully mature, and more evolved than several of its neighbors (e.g. the 1961 Latour à Pomerol), it offers a huge, sweet nose of ginger, mint, exotic spices, and gobs of jammy black fruits. Its extraordinary viscosity, sweetness of fruit, and heady alcohol level, as well as its remarkable extract, make for one of the most sumptuous, hedonistic bottles of wine anybody could ever consume. The color is revealing noticeable amber/rust, and the tannin has melted away. This [is a] decadent bottle of Pomerol . . ." Wine Advocate #95, Oct 1994 |