Château Pétrus 1996
WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 963; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 1996 which is 868. The average score for Château Pétrus is 921, making this an above 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 1996 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 1996 but no other wine from Château Pétrus: Flower, Mushrooms, Exciting, Big, Monolithic, Opaque, Grille, Muscular. The wine has been ready to drink for 6 years (since 2010) and should be consumed within the next 19 years (by 2035). 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 Palmer 2012, Château Lafite Rothschild 2008, Les Forts de Latour 2009, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2012, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2010.
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.
Similar Wines from Nearby
| Similarity Score | Wine | Price Difference |
|---|---|---|
| 30 | Château Lafleur 2010 | -7% |
| 28 | Vieux Château Certan 2008 | -95% |
| 27 | Vieux Château Certan 2005 | -89% |
| 27 | Château Clinet 2010 | -91% |
| 26 | Château Hosanna 2011 | -94% |
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