Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve: Great elegance, with delicately sweet fruit, a refined texture, and lovely length; full-bodied but lively. as olivier berrouet rightly put it, “In order to make a bad wine in 2009 and 2010, you had to try hard; 2011 was the exact opposite!” he created a beautifully restrained Pétrus—a return to the classic style after two atypical vintages. 19

Michael Schuster: dense and mineral to smell, with a soft ripe background fruit; a beautifully balanced, fresh, svelte pétrus, richly sweet and juicy, with characteristic 2011 purity, freshness, and ripeness of fruit; sapid, vital, penetrating, gently spicy, quite feminine for the cru, but with a delicious vitality. the texture of the tannin is super-fine, and the wine, long, graceful, and with terrific fragrant persistence. not a big or powerful pétrus, but full of class. 2024–40. 18.5