- The Petrus vintages have been used to make a £100,000 sangria
- The wine was as soon as cherished by Queen Elizabeth and the Kennedys
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Wine connoisseurs are up in arms over a video exhibiting revellers carelessly pouring dozens of bottles of classic Petrus wine right into a glass bowl to make a £100,000 sangria.
Video footage confirmed patrons of the La Guérite restaurant on Sainte-Marguerite island, off Cannes, cheering and whistling as they combined two vintages of world-renowned Petrus together with ice cubes, oranges and different elements.
One man was seen licking one bottle as he poured its contents out into the bowl.
The as-yet-unnamed partygoers have been seen pouring the vintages, a 2006 that prices round €3,800 (£3,200) a bottle, and the 2011, which prices about €3,200 (£2,700), again in August. However it wasn’t till French newspaper La Figaro picked the story up that condemnation turned widespread.
Philippe Faure-Brac, a famend sommelier, instructed The Occasions it was ‘like utilizing a Picasso or a van Gogh to make a fireplace’
Video footage confirmed patrons of the La Guérite restaurant on Sainte-Marguerite island, off Cannes, cheering and whistling as they combined two vintages of world-renowned Petrus right into a glass bowl
The vintages, a 2006 that prices round €3,800 (£3,200) a bottle, and the 2011, which prices about €3,200 (£2,700), have been used to make the concoction
‘It is a wine with a gastronomic vocation par excellence. Why not style it in a really festive means? Placing it in a sangria is just not its vocation.’
Petrus turned a favorite of the then-Princess Elizabeth within the Forties, after Marie-Louise Loubat, its proprietor on the time, despatched a case over to the UK.
She was enamoured by the purple wine, and later invited Loubat to serve it at her wedding ceremony.
The wine was additionally served to John F. Kennedy and his spouse Jackie, each recognized Francophiles who declared their love for the wine which massively boosted its recognition within the US.
The winery makes simply 30,000 bottles of Petrus a 12 months on its 10 hectares of land.
Legendary wine critic Robert Parker beforehand stated of the 2006 Petrus that it had ‘notes of caramelized, candy black cherries and wild berry fruit with loads of spice, earth, and a touch of herbaceousness.’
He stated the 2011 classic had ‘restrained however intriguing aromas of kirsch, raspberry jam, wooden spice, and mulberries.’
