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100 Points - Jeb Dunnuck
The 2018 Petrus is a brilliant wine with perfection written all over it, and it's unquestionably one of the most powerful, opulent wines in the vintage. As always, it's 100% Merlot and offers a heavenly bouquet of cassis, smoke, earth, graphite, and beautiful liquid violets. Full-bodied, deep, and opulent on the palate, I must have written “huge wine!” three or four times in my notes, and despite all its power and richness, it's seamless, light on its feet, and already hard to resist. Possessing terrific mid-palate depth, sweet tannins, and a finish that ranks with the greatest wines out there, Merlot or any wine for that matter, doesn't get better. If you're lucky enough to have a few bottles of this elixir, do your best to give bottles 7-8 years in the cellar, and I suspect it will keep for 40-50 years.
100 Points - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2018 Petrus has retained its opaque purple-black colour after bottling, foreshadowing the seemingly frozen-in-time glacial pace at which this wine is proceeding. It opens reluctantly, requiring considerable air with vigorous swirling and doggedly demands a few hours before it offers glimpses at this slumbering giant of a wine. As it eventually unfurls, it slowly morphs into a powerful, fantastically pure nose of preserved plums, blackberry preserves and blueberry compote, followed by nuances of molten licorice, dark chocolate, black truffles, iron ore and, still later, floral notions of lilacs and rose oil come through. The full-bodied palate is taut, muscular and oh-so-tightly wound at this stage, and revealing peeks at many, many layers of perfectly ripe black and blue fruits, exotic spices and earthy notions for which words fail.
99 Points - Wine Enthusiast
This is a dark, serious wine, concentrated with richness and freshness at the same time. The ripe tannins are impeccably balanced by fine acidity and a ripe blackberry flavour. It shows the supreme quality of Pomerol's Merlots in this vintage. Of course, it will age nearly forever.
97 Points - Decanter
Clear flesh to the plump damson fruits alongside grilled caramel, graphite, cassis bud and cocoa bean. The tannins are plentiful, but they are plush, ripe and flexible, and as such, are full of Pomerol signature. As it opens through the palate, you realize just how much grip and persistency there is, and the more severe side asserts itself with bitter cocoa shavings and fresh acidities. A more approachable Petrus at this early stage than in many years, but the kick is there, and this is getting set for the long term. 50% new oak. Bottled in July after two months in vat following end of barrel ageing. Drinking Window 2026 - 2048.
96 Points - Wine Spectator
Plush and inviting, with steeped red and black currant and fig flavours that meld nicely with fruitcake, Christmas pudding and anise notes through the finish. Subtle dark earth hint at the end keeps it grounded. The vintage's slightly austere edge is here but is minimized by the fruit, helping this stand apart from the pack—best from 2023 through 2034.
