Michael Schuster: Very dark red, narrow bricking rim; heady with sweetness to smell; concentrated ripe, ‘roasted’ fruit, a cassis core already emerging, infused with minerals and subtle oak, already a magnificently seductive nose at barely ten years of age! Rich, ample, generous, fairly full bodied wine, fresh in acidity, and with a fine textured but still firm tannic frame; densely flavoured, ripe yet fresh, sweet, complex, resonant, with the muscularity and firm flesh typical of the Cru; long and tenacious to taste, yet remaining elegant all the while, beautifully defined because of the acidity, taut and refreshing in spite of its density, and with splendid length. A classic Petrus combination of abundant ripe fruit informed and defined by minerality, complexity, aromatic range and richness. Perhaps not quite the sheer concentration and abundance of the 1989 and 1990, for example, but immensely impressive nonetheless. 2016-50+