Petrolo Galatrona 2008

Professional Ratings

• 97 Wine Enthusiast
  Each new vintage of Galatrona proves, year after year, the enormous potential of Italian Merlot. This is a soft and beautifully decadent wine with plush and perfectly ripe aromas of black cherry, light spice, chocolate and tobacco. The smoothness, richness and persistency is simply unbeatable.
• 95 Jeb Dunnuck

  A Pomerol-like bouquet of black cherries, chocolate, dried herbs and floral notes all emerge from the 2008 Galatrona. It's full-bodied, packed with fruit and texture, has sweet tannin, and a great finish. Made from 100% Merlot all from a single vineyard, aged 19 months in one-third new French oak, this gorgeous, sexy effort is drinking beautifully, but will certainly cruise for another decade or more.

• 90 Wine Spectator

  Reveals aromas and flavors of truffle, raspberry and blackberry, which are all very seductive. More advanced on the palate than the previous four vintages, with some chocolate, coffee and nutty flavors. Ready to enjoy. Non-blind Petrolo Galatrona vertical (November 2021). Drink now.

• 90 Wine & Spirits
  Entirely Merlot from vines planted in the early 1990s, this is black, ripe and powerfully oaked. The fruit itself is tart and lean, the tannins bringing bitter black chocolate to mind. It's juicy underneath, ready for a steak grilled black and blue.