Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve | A Petrus of great dimension this year, with a structure that gains in finesse with each passing week in barrel. An aromatic scope that embraces spices, pepper, iris, marshmallow, violet... Alluring, shimmering tannins. A legendary vintage for the cru. | 99

Michael Schuster | Crisply blackberry ripe and densely mineral to smell; rich, and vital, and firmly tannic, but remaining elegant; sweet, succulent, powerful, a blackberry and violet flavor, very mineral under the ripeness, a touch alcohol warm; very long across the palate and fine and racy, mouthcoating in perfume to finish, markedly tannic, too. A considerable presence, stylistically one senses a sort of clay power and density, a firm, muscular, masculine, long-term Petrus. 2038–70+. | 95–97