WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 875; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 2011 which is 872. 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 2011 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2011 but no other wine from Château Pétrus: Finesse, Juicy, Solid, Poise, Energetic, Damson, Linzer, Torte, Strong, Pebbly. The wine has approximately standard levels of alcohol for the producer (13.5% vs 13.36%); it has broadly similar levels of alcohol for the region in 2011 (13.5% vs 13.13%). 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 La Violette 2012, Château Canon 2012, Château Latour à Pomerol 2012, Château La Conseillante 2006, Château Trotanoy 2006.
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 2011
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2015-04-06 |
gbp |
1250 |