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  • Country ranking ?

    1 120
  • Producer ranking ?

    16
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    now to 2030
  • Food Pairing

    Skirt Steak with Pomegranate Sauce

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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.

 

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Wine Information

In a year when nature proved her generosity, human intervention was key to maintaining balance in the almost over-abundant growth. Weather conditions were ideal for ripening the Cabernet Sauvignon grapes, which meant that the vintage kept the full freshness of the fruit.

Clear, young and bright in colour, with dark, almost bluish glints. Fresh, complex notes of fruit mingle with rose and summer berry aromas. Tannins are round, generous and ...

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Tasting note

color

Deep and Brick red

ending

Long

flavors

Blackberry, Cherry, Cedar, Cigar-box, Leather and Earthy

nose

Mature and Seductive

taste

Well-Integrated, Mature and Full

Verdict

Full-bodied and Fine

Written Notes

Still dark blackish crimson core but a ruby rim. Firm colour. Classic cedary nose and very fluid and juicy.  Spicy finish and not as intensely fruity as it once was.A few lightly dusty tannins in the back ground. Very appetising though. Good fragrance. Opened up in the glass to become an absolutely classic left bank claret with just the right amount of fruit and an appetising but not painful dry cedary finish. Tasted alongside Troplong Mondot, it was a very worthy, delightful representative of fine Médoc. I can't see it getting any better though. Fruit is gentle fading.

  • 93p

Tasted at home. Bought shortly after release. Level: Into neck.

I decanted this bottle for 1 hour but for perfect bottles like this one 2 hours would be even better. The 1990 Pichon-Baron confirmed from the first moment onwards that it is perhaps the best Pichon-Baron ever and one of the truly greatest Bordeaux wines of vintage 1990. The colour is very healthy, bright, quite dark without brown edges.

The nose terrific, a wonderful combination of sweetness, ripe but not overripe dark berries, significantly roasted flavours, finest cedar wood, fresh and lively. From the nose I would never guess that this is a 27 year old Bordeaux, its bouquet is much younger. In taste it has everything I look for in a classic Bordeaux, the sweetness of a great vintage, velvety fruit perfectly balanced by significant acidity and tannins, which results in perfect harmony. The 1990 Pichon-Baron takes you on cloud nine, you simply wish the bottle would never be empty. This is a wine to share with the ones you really love. Great length, my guess is that well stored bottles will provide outstanding pleasure for the next 20 years.

Food: Well hung Filet de Boeuf of best origin 

 

               

  • 98p
Ruby, tobacco, prunes, cassis, leather and mint. Layered and seductive. Quite intense, feels robust. Fresh acidity, almost lively, elegant but slightly hollow mid-palate. Long.
  • 93p
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Origin

Pauillac, Bordeaux

Vintage Quality

Outstanding

Value For Money

Good

Investment potential

Below Average

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None
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