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JAMES SUCKLING: "Intense blackberry and chocolate aromas with plenty of ripe pips and spices. Medium body with fluidity and a sense of wonder to it. The quality of the tannins is so good as to be imperceptible. It has 30% more tannin than the 2022, but then it grows on the finish. pH 3.65 and 14.5% alcohol."
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THE WINE ADVOCATE: "The 2023 Pétrus reveals a fresh, perfumed bouquet of raspberries, cassis, iris and violet mingled with hints of spices, followed by a full-bodied, layered and textural palate with a deep core of pure, crystalline fruit framed by exquisitely sweet structuring tannins. Concluding with an ethereal, resonant finish, it represents a singular interpretation of this estate in a more tensile, ethereal style, and it's all the more compelling for that. This year, Olivier Berrouet minimized pumping over to avoid over-extracting, thereby preserving ultra-refined tannins. The harvest, conducted between September 11 and 20, brought in the Merlot grapes at their optimal maturity. As usual, it will mature 50% in new oak."
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FALSTAFF: "Tiefdunkles Rubingranat, opaker Kern, violette Reflexe, zarte Randaufhellung. Tabakig-kräuterwürzig unterlegte schwarze Waldbeerfrucht, Preiselbeeren, Sanddorn, etwas Lakritze. Kraftvoll, feste Struktur, rotbeerige Nuancen, gute Frische, reife Tannine, zarte Extraktsüße, mineralisch-salzig, bleibt sehr lange haften, eine gelungene Verbindung von floralen, delikaten Aromen in der Nase und einem festen Körper im Abgang, zeigt große Länge, sicheres Reifepotenzial."
