1982 Ch. Pétrus, Pomerol

The 1982 Petrus has not turned out to be nearly as profound as expected. It reveals a certain herbaceousness, and there is significantly less concentration than I initially believed (too much filtration?) along with a cedary spiciness. Tasters who have had no previous experience with this wine will find it to be an outstanding effort that has reached full maturity much faster than some of its peers.
(Robert Parker - Wine Advocate - June 2009)

 It is full-bodied, tannic, and from the best bottles, very concentrated and rich. Other bottles seem somewhat vegetal and roasted, with sweetness but not the prodigious qualities of other bottles. It is hard to know what is really going on. The wine seems to be close to full maturity, but should hold where well-stored for at least another two decades. As a post-script, this wine was, from cask, still to this day one of the most memorable wines I have ever tasted and certainly a perfect wine. From my perspective, it has never lived up to that after bottling, which I suspect involved entirely too much fining and filtration, something not being done since the late eighties at Petrus.
(Robert Parker - Wine Advocate - Jan 2003)