Petrus 1929

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An extremely rare wine from Pomerol. Legendary vintage.

100/100 Parker

When to drink this wine : Now.

Tasted in 1998 by Robert Parker: "The Petrus 1929 is a deep ruby/garnet colour with amber/orange highlights around the edges. A huge, thick wine with extraordinary aromas of coffee, mocha, black cherries, herbs and cedar. Unctuous, thick, tannic and massively concentrated, this wine is remarkably intact. It could easily have been mistaken for a 30- to 35-year-old wine."

The secret of the Petrus terroir

Clay is the secret of Petrus. Petrus is first and foremost a unique 20-hectare terroir on the Pomerol plateau, which is also home to two other famous châteaux, La Conseillante and L'Evangile. Petrus occupies the highest point on the plateau, atop a 40-metre mound known as the Boutonnière argileuse de Pétrus, a cold, clayey terroir surrounded by gravel and sand. These famous, very fine, swelling black clays have the ability to store water and release it drop by drop to the vines. This clay acts like a kind of sponge, absorbing the water, but the excess, like a natural drain, runs off towards the bottom of the plateau.

Serving

The ideal serving temperature is around 15°C. It goes very well with a fillet of beef with duck foie gras, for example.

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