A sip of the exquisite: Anson’s Petrus picks
Petrus, Pomerol 2016 99
£2,900-£3,700 (ib) Widely available Bottled in mid-August 2018, tasted in October 2018. This is already taking on the most amazing slow creep of well-defined, crisp violet, cassis, tight black fruits and fig notes; floral and fresh yet complex and ripe. It’s balanced by the most gorgeous burst of mint and slate, all stretching out slowly, delicately, gently. It’s more architectural than the monumental 2015, but no less impressive, beginning to really settle and take its time
