This wine rivals the memorable 2015 (my favourite recent vintage) without that great wine’s sense of calm. Instead we have a sense of compressed profundity a super-rich vinous red fruited perfume of impossible refinement. This continues on the palate with silken dense fruit, powerful in a way rarely seen at La Fleur-Pétrus and yet possessed of an extraordinarily concentrated, effortless purity. The finish flares brightly, almost fiercely and lasts seemingly minutes.