WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 888; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 1982 which is 867. The average score for Château Pétrus is 923, making this a below average effort for the producer.
When people talk about wines from Château Pétrus they use words like Purple, Full, Tannin, Decades, Pétrus, Spice, Rich, Tannins, Powerful, Fruit, Sweet, Dense, Black, Pure, Inky. The 1982 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 1982 but no other wine from Château Pétrus: Profound, Cask, Spiciness, Roasted, Vegetal, Cedary, Filtration, Memorable, Fining. The wine has significantly lower levels of alcohol than this producer normally outputs (13% vs 13.43%); it has broadly similar levels of alcohol for the region in 1982 (13% vs 12.83%). It normally takes wines from Château Pétrus around 11 years to be ready to start drinking, and 29 further years to decline.
Better value alternatives would be Château Pavie 2009, Château Clos Fourtet 2009, Château L’Eglise-Clinet 2012, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2012, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2012.
MyWineMine has compared this wine to all others it has scored; this wine offers very low value for money when looking at the price per point of MyWineMine Score. This wine is in the bottom 10% of wines by value; you might very well be paying for the name, rather than the wine.
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Prices & Deals for Château Pétrus 1982
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2015-04-06 |
gbp |
4502 |