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  • Country ranking ?

    701
  • Producer ranking ?

    5
  • Decanting time

    4h
  • When to drink

    2020-2035

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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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2020  Château Pichon-Longueville Baron Pauillac Richly colored with purple around the edges the wine struts its creme de cassis, tobacco, cigar box, earthy, forest floor and peppery spice nose with ease. On the palate the wine is round, polished, sweet, fresh, ripe, long and elegant. This is a refined, classic, potentially forward vintage of Pichon Baron that should start showing quite well with just a decade of aging. The wine was made from blending 76% Cabernet Sauvignon and 24% Merlot, 13.6% ABV. Yields were only 33 hectoliters per hectare. 97-99  Pts

  • 99p

Cask sample. This has all the succulence and richness that is missing from their Griffons. Complete, balanced, smooth and perfumed to finish, with long floral fragrance. Lives up to its reputation. (RH)

  • 91p

The inky hued 2020 Château Pichon-Longueville Baron checks in as a blend of 76% Cabernet Sauvignon and 24% Merlot that spent 18 months in 70% new barrels. It's a dense, rich, powerful 2020 offering loads of pure cassis and almost blue fruits as well as full-bodied richness, a round, lush, incredibly sexy texture, sweet tannins, and ample classic Pauillac lead pencil, tobacco, and violet aromas and flavors. It's unquestionably in the same ballpark as the 2015, 2016, and 2018, and given its sweet tannins and beautifully integrated acidity, it should have some up-front appeal as well, yet still age at a glacier pace. 
Barrel Sample: 96-98

  • 98p

Ruby. Cassis, blackberries, fruit driven, scented, vanilla, spices, layered nose. Fresh acidity, ripe tannins, dark fruits, anise, detailed, some coffee notes, intense and layered, deep, and very long finish. About 70% new wood, rest has been used for one vintage and Pichon Baron is about 48% of the yield. 97-99

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Pauillac, Bordeaux
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