Talk:Château Pétrus

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Contents 1 Opinion - not relevant 2 Name 3 Considered among the best ... 4 WikiProject class rating

[edit] Opinion - not relevant

I this article someone writes "The influential wine critic Robert M. Parker, Jr., who is well known for his love of Bordeaux wines, has written that Grange, Australia's famous wine, "has replaced Bordeaux's Pétrus as the worlds most exotic and concentrated wine"" - A quotation from "The Economist" from 1999.

I see no relevance for this bit of information in this article. First of all, Robert Parkers opinion on any given wine is rather uninteresting. Second, wether someone finds one wine more concentrated than another is completely irrelevant. Concentration is not nessecarily a goal for winemakers.

Rather than being information on Chateau Petrus it's information on Robert Parker and whatever wine he finds most concentrated. This should not be included in this article.

- nwinther

Opinion of world's leading wine critic seems as relevant as opinions about which are the best vintages, as listed in previous paragraph.OliverPetrucchi 19:22, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

This resembles ad copy and does not belong in the Petrus article. For better or worse, Petrus is perhaps the most prestigious, expensive red wine. Compare it to, say, Citizen Kane or Harvard University or some other item item with a grand (arguably turgid) reputation. Would it be appropriate to edit the Citizen Kane article so that it reads that such-and-such critic has written, "[such and such movie] has replaced Citizen Kane as the greatest film ever made" or to add the following to Harvard's article "[such and such school] has replaced Harvard as America's top college?" It adds nothing to the article--it just constitutes spam for the competing entity. If you were to intelligently discuss Petrus' reputation--and whether critics generally agree that its reputation is or is not earned--it would greatly enhance this article. But to simply report that one particular critic thinks one particular wine is now the superlative offering is just silly.--The Fat Man Who Never Came Back 16:53, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

I just looked in to see why this article doesn't mention that Château Pétrus is far and away the most famous Pommerol vintage. --Wetman 15:53, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Name

The article presently reads :There is no Château physically on the estate, and nowhere is it written on the label; this explains why it is simply referred to as Pétrus, and not Château Pétrus. Why, then, is this article at Château Pétrus and not at Pétrus? 195.92.40.49 16:50, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Considered among the best ...

I know it's not ideal language (ie it is a little POV and also uses slightly weasel words), but this info should be here in one form or other and it is not in any way a controversial statement - Petrus is one of the most famous and well regarded estates in Bordeaux, but the fact that Pomerol has no classification system makes it more difficult to state that in a neutral way. Maybe we could add a citation from a "wine expert"? Also removing the sentence wholesale left the "big eight" reference afterwards without any context or clarity. --Nickhh 09:24, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 14:22, 10 November 2007 (UTC)