Decanted 3 hours before grilled tenderloin dinner. Light rust in color. Elegant nose with balanced terroir. This being my first Petrus experience, did not know what was coming. Found the wine more delicate than anticipated. The wine exhibited a mature, yet inviting flavor of berries with the classic earthy overtone. Perhaps a little sweet when we first started drinking, but the wine continued to evolve over the course of the meal.

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Talk about a thrill a second, as well as unprecedented decadence (at least for me), consider the rarity of a flight of six double magnums of Petrus! Because there were not many people at the tasting, there was the possibility of having several large glasses of these wines, making judging them all the more fun. And let's not forget the medical benefit of flushing the fat out of one's arteries with such remarkable juice! The 1976 Petrus has been fully mature since it was released. The wine has always possessed intense aromas of over-ripe tomatoes, roasted vegetables, and red and black fruits touched by sweet toasty oak. It continues to be a pleasing, fat style of Petrus, without the body, weight, and depth of a great year. It needs to be drunk up.

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