John Gilman: La Fleur-Pétrus is an unqualified success, offering excellent complexity and depth on both nose and palate. The first-rate bouquet delivers scents of black cherries, plums, chocolate, a nice touch of tobacco leaf, gravelly soil tones, coffee beans, and a discrete framing of new oak. On the palate, the wine is deep, full-bodied, and rock solid at the core, with ripe, firm tannins, fine focus and balance, and truly exceptional length and grip on the complex finish. This is one 2010 Pomerol that does not push the envelope of ripeness and is much the better for its veneer of restraint. Lovely wine. 2020–60+. 17.5/18