Château Pétrus--Vintage 1992

10 bottles per lot
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Château Pétrus--Vintage 1992
Pomerol, cru exceptionnel
Both lots in original wooden cases. lot 1596 lid missing
"The 1992 Pétrus is clearly one of the two candidates for the "wine of the vintage." The normal production of 4,500 cases was severely reduced to only 2,600 cases, resulting in an atypically concentrated, powerful, rich wine with a dark, saturated ruby/purple color, a tight but promising nose of sweet black-cherry fruit, vanillin, caramel, and herb-tinged mocha notes. Concentrated and powerful, with superb density of fruit and richness, as well as wonderful sweetness to its tannin, this is a brilliant effort for the vintage. The wine requires 3-5 years of cellaring and should keep for 15-20+.

Interestingly, the Pétrus vineyard, along with that of its sibling, Trotanoy, was covered with black plastic in early September, 1992 to trap most of the rain rather than allowing it to saturate the vineyard's soil and dilute the grapes. It was a strategy that obviously paid off." Robert Parker, Wine Advocate #96 (December 1994)
10 bottles per lot

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