WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 934; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 2008 which is 865. The average score for Château Pétrus is 922, 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 2008 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2008 but no other wine from Château Pétrus: Perfume, Mocha, Sensational, Caramel, Destined, Cellaring, Formidable, Eclipsing, Textured, Unctuously. The wine has significantly higher levels of alcohol than this producer normally outputs (14% vs 13.29%); it has significantly higher levels of alcohol than this region in 2008 (14% vs 13.02%). 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 Clos Fourtet 2009, Château Pontet-Canet 2005, Château Haut-Brion 2010, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2005, Château La Mission-Haut-Brion 2005.
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 2008
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2015-04-06 |
gbp |
2150 |