Château Pétrus Cru exceptionnel, Pomerol

Pétrus requires no classification — it transcends them. Produced from an almost entirely merlot vineyard on Pomerol's most celebrated blue clay plateau, it is one of the ten most important wines on earth, and has been since the mid-twentieth century. Harvested in the afternoon to avoid morning dew diluting the must, managed with obsessive precision by the Moueix family, it is a wine of extraordinary concentration and longevity. No serious list of the world's finest wines is complete without it.