Ranked #8 in Wine Spectator's Top 100 Wines of 2023
Ranked #3 in Wine Spectator's Top 100 Wines of 2023
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The 2020 Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande has a very intense bouquet with layers of black fruit, hints of seaweed/brine, crushed stone, and perhaps less mint than it displayed from barrel. This possesses stunning delineation, like a perfect C maj...
The bouquet enchants by its expression of pure, crunchy fruit and florality without a trace of oakiness despite barrel-aging with 80% new wood. Some touches of graphite and subtle spices come into the aromatic mix. On a par with the great 2016, this stunn...
Very deep purple-black colored, it begins a little coy, rolling slowly and languidly out of the glass with notions of baked raspberries, blueberry coulis, cr?me de cassis and incense plus nuances of lilacs, truffles, damp soil and garrigue with wafts of l...
The 2022 Pichon Baron is one of the most elegant, polished wines I have ever tasted here. Silky and rened, the 2022 is super-impressive right out of the gate. The aromatics alone are mesmerizing. Blood orange, herbs and oral notes lend notable delinea...
Dark and brooding in bearing, the 2021 Pichon Baron is a somber, mysterious wine. It is every bit as impressive as it was en primeur. Graphite, leather, spice, mocha and dried herbs meld together in a wine of power, precision and contemporary classicis...
A blend of 80% Cabernet Sauvignon and 20% Merlot, the 2023 Pichon-Longueville Baron is a terrific effort from this estate, unwinding in the glass with aromas of crème de cassis, dark berries, pencil shavings, cigar wrapper, violets and burning embers. Med...