![]() ![]() Long flavour though, still in the mouth after a good few minutes. Great potential and underlying power just needs to open a bit. Liquorice, bitter dark chocolate, pencil lead and tobacco flavours edge the fruit and linger giving this a serious profile that will need longer to expand and soften. Some bright acidity on the first impact but the tannins are at the fore right now, on the ripe side with chew - completely coating the mouth, firm and full. This is dense with drive and concentration where the focus is on the full mouthfeel and dark savoury tones. Best from 2025 through 2045." - Wine Spectator Shows a burst of sweet bay leaf and savory accents through the finish, as the fruit takes an encore before zooming off. "Expressive and vibrant, with a cassis bush aroma that leaps to the forefront, followed quickly by sleek and dense black currant, black Mission fig and black cherry preserve flavors flanked by a racy graphite note. (2/1997) 95 points Wine Spectator What a nose here, from crushed mulberry to tanned leather to tar. It is unquestionably a great Pichon-Longueville-Baron. Pichon-Baron was impressive from barrel and it is again today from bottle. Well-layered, with a sweet inner-core of fruit, this awesomely endowed, backward, tannic, prodigious 1989 needs another 5-6 years of cellaring it should last for three decades or more. Dark cherry, plum, gravel, licorice and incense infuse the 2019 with tremendous depth to match its virile personality. That comes through in the wine's vibrancy, explosive power and overall profile. Cabernet Sauvignon is the highest ever in the Grand Vin at 87%. In fact, the 2019 is one of the very finest recent vintages I can remember tasting. Polished tea leaves with freshness on the end. Needs lots of time but should be rewarding eventually. Chewy, yet so tailored and wonderfully proportioned. Full-bodied, very long and linear with incredible length. "Blackberries and blueberries with stone and graphite. Pichon Baron was one of the great deals of the en primeur campaign, and readers who purchased futures are to be congratulated on their foresight." - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate Perfumed and resonant, this is a profound young Pauillac that bears more of a resemblance to its neighbor Château Latour than to Pichon Lalande this year. Unfurling in the glass with aromas of cassis and plums mingled with notions of cigar wrapper, sweet loamy soil and violets, it's full-bodied, velvety and layered, with superb concentration, lively acids and rich, powdery tannins. "The 2019 Pichon-Longueville Baron will go down as one of this château's great wines of the modern era, along with 2016, 20. Baron Raoul Pichon de Longueville was trots op zijn eigendom en liet een imposant kasteel bouwen, hetgeen we nu kennen als Château Pichon Baron. Een jaar eerder werd het landgoed namelijk in tweeën gesplitst: Pichon Baron (ook Pichon de Longueville genoemd) en Pichon Comtesse (ook Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande genoemd). De geschiedenis gaat terug naar de 17e eeuw, maar het kasteel dateert uit 1851. Met zijn twee karakteristieke torentjes ziet Château Pichon Baron er precies zo uit als je van een Frans kasteel verwacht. Waar vind je value for money in Bordeaux?.Uitgelicht: de wijnen van Vignobles Silvio Denz.Uitgelicht: de wijnen van Les Terroirs de Suravenir.Special: Bordeaux - dynamischer dan ooit. ![]() Wat kun je verwachten van Bordeaux 2020?.Wat kun je verwachten van Bordeaux 2022?.Ideally, readers should have both vintages in their cellars. It is far more fun to taste and drink (more hedonistic perhaps?) than the more structured, backward, yet exceptional 1989. On the palate, the wine offers sensational quantities of jammy fruit, glycerin, wood, and sweet tannin. It is equally concentrated, with a more evolved nose of cedar, black fruits, earth, minerals, and spices. The wine is opulent and flamboyant, with lower acidity, and noticeably less tannin than the 1989. The 1990 Pichon-Longueville-Baron exhibits more of the roasted overripeness of this vintage, but it manages to keep everything in perspective. Both the 19 vintages exhibit opaque, dense purple colors that suggest massive wines of considerable extraction and richness. I originally gave a one point preference to the 1989, and I am still convinced that ultimately that wine will last longer and hit a higher peak of pleasure than the 1990, but, wow, the 1990 is showing great. Until 3-4 months ago, the wine could have been purchased for under $400 a case, but that seems to have changed as the results of numerous tastings have pushed the price upward. One of the finest values in top-class Bordeaux has been the 1990 Pichon-Longueville-Baron. ![]()
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