Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve: The bouquet is already enchanting, alternating between notes of violets and more exotic nuances. Not as powerfully built as the 2009, this year’s vintage embraces the major virtues of this cru: velvety texture with unforgettable finesse and astonishing freshness. Spectacular focus. 19.5

John Gilman: Pétrus is one of the two top wines of the vintage on the Right Bank, but it is not quite in the same celestial league as the magical 2009. The wine is very ripe but shows no signs of overripeness in its powerful aromatic blend of black cherries, plums, tobacco smoke, a touch of black olive, lovely soil tones, and a discreet base of new oak. The team at Pétrus once again used only 50% new wood for the 2010—an example that I wish more of the top estates would follow. On the palate, the wine is deep, full-bodied, pure, and powerful, with ripe, substantial tannins, a rock-solid core of fruit, great focus, and superb length and grip on the very well-balanced and pure finish. Given the octane level here, it is rather amazing how well this wine has retained its precision, but I have little doubt that Monsieur Berrouet would like nothing better than always to end up with a Pétrus under 14% ABV. A very, very good result that underscores just how difficult it was this year on the Right Bank to manage alcohol levels. 2025–2100. 18.5/19

Michael Schuster: No Cabernet Franc any more, the half hectare of this variety having been grubbed up to make way for the new cellars. Very densely black fruit to smell, with a very marked minerality; rich, ample, powerful wine, fresh in acidity, firm and fine in tannin, but with absolutely no asperity of texture, finely balanced despite the substantial proportions. An abundance of fruit and matter to taste, crisply ripe in flavor, very mineral-infused and with an exceptional definition and purity considering its level of ripeness. Tremendous tenacity of flavor and great, fresh fruit-perfumed length. You simply don’t notice the alcohol at all. Difficult to think of another vintage of Pétrus that has this combination of density and definition. Memorable wine to taste: beautiful, large-scale elegance. Utterly, effortlessly regal. A long wait! 2030–60+. 20