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Château Pichon-Longueville-Baron - Pauillac

Vintage

2021

Size

75cl

Price

€169.20

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Onshore Cellars

2040 Chemin Saint Bernard, Porte 12
06220 Vallauris
France

Opening hours
Monday to Friday, 09:00-17:00

Tasting notes

The 2021 Pichon-Longueville Baron is showing very well in bottle, unwinding in the glass with notes of cassis, sweet berries and violets mingled with subtle hints of orange zest and cigar wrapper. Medium to full-bodied, fleshy and layered, with good depth at the core, bright acids and sweet tannins that assert themselves on the gently structured finish, its serious, slightly reserved profile reflects the unusually high (89%) percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon. The 2021 concluded its élevage in large wooden vats for a month and a half, saw a touch less racking than normal, and was only fined with a small amount of gelatin, not egg white, as has been the rule at this address for several years now.

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Provenance

Type
Red
Country
France
Appellation
Pauillac
Region
Bordeaux

Technical

Vintage
2021
ABV
13%
Size
75cl
Serving
16° - 18° C
Drinking window
2030 - 2060

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About this wine

The 2019 Pichon-Longueville Baron will go down as one of this château's great wines of the modern era, along with 2016, 2010 and 1989. 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. 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. 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.

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Region

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Appellation

Pauillac

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