Verkostungsnotizen
Vinous 90
The 1983 Petrus is a vintage I have only encountered a couple of times. This is unquestionably the best I have experienced, blind no less. The bouquet springs from the glass, autumn bonfire scents intertwined with black truffle and leather, more fruit than I remember on the previous bottle. Perhaps the palate just misses a little cohesion? Foursquare but fresh, this is a simple Petrus predestined to lie in the shadow of the previous vintage. Yet this punches above my expectations. Tasted blind at Olivier Bernard’s "3" dinner at Domaine de Chevalier.
Anticipated maturity: 2023-2040
Robert Parker 89
Tasted at Benoit restaurant in New York. It has been five years since I last tasted this Petrus. Here in New York, the bottle is showing better than before. It has a fresh, lifted bouquet with wild strawberry mixed with cooked meat and that roasted chestnut that I have noticed before. The palate is medium-bodied and showing a little more weight than I recall, although it is still very foursquare and conservative. There is a sense of breeding and elegance here, but it is not translated into complexity or length. I suspect it would struggle to compete against Lafleur ’83, but it remains a serviceable Petrus that should be drunk over the next decade. Tasted April 2013.
