17 JR Served blind alongside Petrus 1975. At first the wine seemed a bit too old and a bit decayed with a strong rusty nails character but in the glass it actually cleaned up a bit and there was the vestige of old glory. A...
97 RP / 95 WCI / 18 JR This is undisputably the wine of the vintage, a year that was clearly over-exposed and over-rated, largely because it was better than the four vintages that preceded it. However, it was not terribly...
98 RP / 97 VM / 97 FS / 19 JR One of the best wines of the vintage as well as the most concentrated and tannic Petrus of the seventies, the 1975 is a blockbuster wine, opulently rich, still broodingly dark in color, and...
17.5 JR / 94 JS / 93 VM ‘Mild winter with quite heavy rainfall. Warm start to spring with some frost and cold spells. Good flowering. Hot and dry summer. Rain before harvest which began around 26 September. A few...