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  • Country ranking ?

    1 292
  • Producer ranking ?

    24
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    now to 2030
  • Food Pairing

    Pork Tenderloin Wrapped with Pancetta

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Each year, Wine Spectator editors survey the wines reviewed over the previous 12 months and select our Top 100, based on quality, value, availability and excitement. This annual list honors successful wineries, regions and vintages around the world.

Château Pichon-Longueville Baron 1989 was the Wine of the Year in 1992

Defines purity and intensity. Shows unbelievable concentration of fruit, with amazing blackberry, cassis, dark chocolate...

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The Story

Our Grand Vin Château Pichon Baron, classified as a 2nd Grand Cru Classé in 1855, is made with grapes from the oldest vines on the estate’s historic plots.This quintessential Pauillac offers an intense and profound sensory experience of great complexity. Château Pichon Baron exhibits elegance, intensity and exceptional length on the palate. It is a wine that improves year after year and can age for over 40 years in the cellar.

 

The repu...

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Wine Information

After AXA Millésimes’ team took over the reins the vineyard produced a highly-reputed wine which was in a class of its own and recognised by the world’s greatest wine critics.

It is deep and dark in colour with no sign of changing over time. Notes of ripe fruit burst forth immediately; dark fruit, cocoa, fig, mild spices and a candied flavour give this vintage its warm accents.

Ample and full-bodied it bursts onto the palate with tannins...

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First-rate bottle. Decanted two hours. Impressive dark, youthful colour. Muscular, open, vigorous nose. Full bodied and wonderful in its complexity and structure. This handsome Pichon-Baron continues to demonstrate rich, fat and commanding flavours and aromas of wild blackberries, ripe plums, cassis, and vintage leather. Sound, heavy and long. Good effort, even better than the well made 1982, or soon to be great 1990. Drinkable now, but will last at least two more decades.
  • 90p
Pichon-Baron 1989 Still youthful and quite closed nose at first with cassis, licorice, smoke and touch of greenness. Dark and deep but not very charming or developed. Full bodied but closed and tannic palate with youthful, dark cassis fruit. Tannic and grippy with a very nice licorice and smoke touch as well a green, phenolic touch that needs time to melt. Perhaps too extracted? This is still quite massive and it make me wonders if it ever will be more charming than impressive. 2018-2040? 94p
  • 94p
Towards deep ruby. Rich nose, coffee, heavy and ripe feel. A bit (for a wine of this stature) one-dimensional. Medium acidity, ripe tannins, lacks a bit of freshness, very rounded, but more elegant palate and fruit, than nose. Long.
  • 91p
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Origin

Pauillac, Bordeaux

Vintage Quality

Excellent

Value For Money

Best buy

Investment potential

Below Average

Fake factory

None

Glass time

1h
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