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1982 Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande |
| Vintage | 1982 |  Label 1 of 42   | |
| Type | Red | ||
| Producer | Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande (web) | ||
| Variety | Red Bordeaux Blend | ||
| Designation | n/a | ||
| Vineyard | n/a | ||
| Country | France | ||
| Region | Bordeaux | ||
| SubRegion | Médoc | ||
| Appellation | Pauillac |
| Community Tasting History |
Community Tasting Notes (average 96.5 pts. and median of 97 pts. in 130 notes) | |
| Tasted by Mike V on 1/31/2010 & rated 97 points: This is quite a wine. Opened and cosines over 4 hours. Started delicate ruby but gained depth throughout the night. Earth tobacco on the nose. Lovely red fruit with mature flavors. Will last for years. I wish I would have decanted. (317 views) | |
| Tasted by Margauxguy on 1/20/2010 & rated 99 points: Perhaps the best 82 I have had, including Latour, Lafite and Mouton. Did not have the power, but sweet fruit, rich round and spectacular. Anyone want to sell some? (504 views) | |
| Tasted by mariow on 1/8/2010 & rated 97 points: a perfect bottle! intense red, just an edge of plum purple; right after opening already a very intense nose, berries, citrus, red pepper; very elegant and round on the pallate with a long great finish. One of the best wines I ever had. Did decant the bottle about 3 to 4 hours before serving (615 views) | |
| Tasted by bon vivant on 1/1/2010: New year's eve & day; 12/31/2009-1/1/2010: What a treat - this has always been a very special wine and it has been a long 4 + years since I last tasted this reference point wine. Several nice bottles of the 83 & 86 have been delicious but this bottle reminded me of what a great silky and seamless wine this can be and the glory that can be found in a Bordeaux. A wine soaked cork that refused to cooperate and some funky smokey herbaceous aromatics had us in doubt yet the dark ruby color with barely 2 mm of meniscus of which only the very edge was clear kept our hopes alive. After almost 4 hours and just in time for the Venison wellington to be served this wine left everyone around the table speechless. My ability to write TN's does not do this wine justice triple digits tonight.Silk. (731 views) | |
| Tasted by BradA on 12/30/2009 & rated 94 points: This had been brought by a fellow I hadn't seen in years to a group tasting: truffles, damp earth a little green olive and a sweet finish. Obviously the best wine of the night---regrettably, the majority of fellas were swilling it like apple juice, a wine made to savor. (812 views) | |
| Tasted by ksheys on 12/25/2009 & rated 99 points: Color - slight bricking, but mostly a perfect youngish ruby red (after three decants); Smell - blew off some fuel and funk early; settled into a fresh light spicy aroma; Taste - the tannins were completely integrated, leaving a structured perfectly balanced, nuanced flavor of cloves, pepper, saddle, and cherries. A pure, smooth and moth watering wine. The best Bord I can remember tasting. (838 views) | |
| Tasted by Anonymous on 12/25/2009 & rated 98 points: This was a great wine, open for Xmas dinner with family. (133 views) | |
| Tasted by Anonymous on 12/25/2009 & rated 95 points: This was a wonderful wine, open for Xmas dinner with family. (131 views) | |
| Tasted by vinojones on 12/10/2009 & rated 96 points: Ruby red no bricking; Rich nose of tobacco leaf, moist loam,coffee and very dark choc.; incredibly smooth mouth feel, well integrated dried cherry/red plum fruits with richer meaty broth, mocha coffee flavors; complex, changing over time but always extremely sophisticated, smooth character, elegant; very long finish but not flamboyant- understated so don't pair with sexy "tarts" (1195 views) | |
| Tasted by The Kid on 11/5/2009: Absolutely wonderful. (1743 views) | |
| Tasted by Edclr on 10/29/2009 & rated 96 points: I have had better bottles than this one. Still very youthful, tight for the first hour, then it blossomed, but at a lower level than the last couple of bottles. Still has 5-8 years of life remaining. Had 69 Leroy Echezeax with it, and much discussion about which to drink first. We decided to drink this first which I think was the correct order. The sweetness of the Echezeaux would have spoiled the enjoyment of this excellent wine. (1853 views) | |
| Tasted by balassis on 10/9/2009 & rated 100 points: Daily excursion with my friend George, at Tsivlou Lake (North Peloponese - Greece), 800 m. altitude. This wine was a tribute to this wonderful landscape! Deep ruby, with a brownish rim. First impression: Mute nose and hursh tannis, dominated by flavors of berries. After some aeration into the glasses La Comtesse was unwraped... Layers of cedar, wet earth, spices, mushrooms, oaky vanilla, wild cherries and berries in a totaly perect balance. A legendary bordeaux with at least 10 years of life!!! Alongside Mouton Rothschild 1982, was WOTN. (2129 views) | |
| Tasted by jcasey555 on 10/1/2009 & rated 96 points: Drank after Proseco, Rose, Chablis, before Red Burgundy. Interesting terroir, earthy, meaty, great nose and finish, great meal (2085 views) | |
| Tasted by MariaMa on 9/12/2009 & rated 100 points: Dark red color and a great nose of cedar and pencil lead. On the palate the wine is long, with no tannins. This bottle showed little signs of age. (2395 views) | |
| Tasted by pschwaller on 9/5/2009 & rated 99 points: (1878 views) | |
| Tasted by DAN BAILEY on 8/5/2009: Lovely perfumed nose - easily the best of the night. Really sweet, precise and compact palate. Didn't quite seduce me in the way I'd hoped given all the hype. Still, a lovely claret. (2723 views) | |
| Tasted by GlennK on 8/5/2009 & rated 98 points: This is special wine here. Aromas jumping out of the glass with cassis, sweet berries, chocolate and a wonderful leathery note that lingered throughout the night. Really plush on the full-bodied with pure fruit hanging on the palate from beginning to end. Just seamless and beyond elegant. This wine really stood out from the crowd for me and was my easy WOTN. (2696 views) | |
| Tasted by phenricsson on 7/22/2009 & rated 99 points: 100 point tasting in Sweden. WOTF for me and the group. Especially in the beginning it was superb but it did lose a bit in the glass. This wine is always showing great. It feels like it will not last many more years, but it has been the same for 15 years. Fat, soft mouthfeel and great intensity and purity. Very, very long, pleasant aftertaste. Great sweetness, but with the salt, ash and complexity to still make it a serious wine. 99p. (2640 views) | |
| Tasted by plitton on 7/17/2009 & rated 94 points: Pichon Lalande Vertical ('75, '78, '82, '88): Popped and poured. Great clear color. This was classically balanced and a succinct, refined experience. It needed about 30 minutes in the glass to open up. After about an hour is showed lots of tar and petroleum in the nose. (2966 views) | |
| Tasted by svdheijden on 7/5/2009 & rated 95 points: I rated this wine 95 points, but at some stage scores would be around 90-92. Opened and decanted three hours before tasting. Good level, into neck. Color shows age, nose at first very sweet, hardly any fruit and a little flat. Sexy, but not as elegant and complex as one would expect. Taste at first very sweet as well, with cedar, chocolate and tobacco. We were a little disappointed because the Talbot 1982 we were tasting at the same time showed better! After cooling the bottle a few degrees the wine improved considerably. Thick concentrated layers of dark (but still very sweet) fruit (cassis) appeared, and it showed more elegance and body. (3182 views) | |
| Tasted by rnellans on 7/4/2009 & rated 96 points: A 100 pt Parker wine and if you have it, you will see why...Absolutely gorgeous...Dark, dark color with an amber edge. Huge nose of tobacco, dark cherries, lilies that jumps out of the glass. Great on the palate...Lush mid-palate and long on the finish.....flat part of the drinking plateau..It has some life ahead. (3094 views) | |
| Tasted by reichken on 6/23/2009 & rated 94 points: Sunny Lunch in Hampsted- decanted a few hours.a little lightening around the edges but not much, great sexy nose of black fruit and a touch of cherries. there was a little mustiness around but it was blew right off, in the mouth this was great, tart black fruit, some tobacco and just nice and lush from front to back, had a nice medium long finish and quite a youthful weight to it. this bottle was in great shape and has years of pleasure left in it. great with the steaks (3240 views) | |
| Tasted by MPAN on 5/29/2009 & rated 95 points: Blue berries; sweetish taste (3495 views) | |
| Tasted by rstark on 5/9/2009 & rated 94 points: MOPA 100 Point Wine Tasting (Rancho Santa Fe, CA): Showing more age than the other ‘82’s at this event. Fabulous nose, but in palate the fruit is really start to recede. Meaty, truffly, but missing something. Flatlined in the finish. (2003 views) | |
| Tasted by HIT on 4/13/2009 & rated 100 points: Revisited this favorite of mine once again. Wow! The nose is by far the most sedictive of the wines I have tasted, filling your senses with black fruit and what I could best describe as crowberry heath (I have been trying for some time to find the right description - this is quite close. It probably represents the earthy notes combined with the strong black fruit). Very rich, sensual on the palate and with the same beautiful and looooooooong finish. Itremains my favorite. (4069 views) | |
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| Producer website A silky, dense and deep coloured wine with aromatics hints of fruit About red wine The variety Red Bordeaux Blend on CellarTracker implies any blend using any or all of the five traditional Bordeaux varieties: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot and Malbec. As such, this is used worldwide, whether for wines from Bordeaux, Meritages from California and Canada, some Super-Tuscan wines etc. Vins de France (Office National Interprofessionnel des Vins ) | Pages Vins, Directory of French Winegrowers | French Wine (Wikipedia) Vins Bordeaux (Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux) | Simple Bordeaux primer Vins du Médoc (Conseil des Vins du Médoc) The eight precisely defined appellations of the whole of the Médoc (from Blanquefort Brook to the north of the Bordeaux built-up area, almost to the Pointe de Grave) may claim the Médoc appellation. But there is also a specific territory in the north of the peninsula which produces exclusively wines with this appellation. In the great majority, the Médocs come from the north of the peninsula. The great individuality of this region is that the number of vines has increased more recently here than elsewhere, apart from a few isolated spots where vines have grown for many years. Today, the size of the small estate has brought about the development of a powerful co-operative movement. Four co-operatives out of five belong to the group called Unimédoc which ensures aging, bottling and marketing a large proportion of their wines. Looking full onto the river from the earliest days, with an important port activity, traces of which go back to ancient times (shipment of bronze as long ago as 2000 B.C.), Pauillac's life has always been intimately linked to the history of wine. Although port activities were at the root of its prosperity, Pauillac had to wait until the eighteenth century when Bordeaux ceased to hold its privileged position to become a wine port. The town then became the natural outlet for the wine production of neighbouring cantons before reaching its zenith in a period when the vineyards were exceptionally prosperous. The characteristic of the Pauillac terroir is its exceptional relief: the many undulating ridges make it unique morphologically speaking. Highly favourable conditions facilitate the dissection of the layer of gravel. This thin, Garonne gravel from whose very poverty springs great richness, has an extremely effective natural drainage. With their velvet red colour with a hint of amber, the wines from the Pauillac appellation, full-bodied and rich in tannin, are vigorous. Powerful when young, their aromas of red fruits (black-currant, raspberry) or flowers (violets, roses, irises) melt with the passing of time into a bouquet which is long in the mouth. Rich and complex, the wines of Pauillac deserve to be laid down for a little longer. Production conditions (Decree dated November 14, 1936) In order to have the right to the Pauillac appellation of controlled origin, red wines must: - come from the commune of Pauillac and from precisely defined parcels in the communes of Cissac, Saint-Julien, Saint-Estèphe and Saint-Sauveur, "excluding the parcels situated on recent alluvium and sand on impermeable subsoils", - satisfy precise production conditions : grape-varieties (Cabernet-Sauvignon, Cabernet-Franc, Carmenère, Merlot Noir, Petit Verdot, Cot or Malbec), minimum of sugar (178 grammes - 6.27 oz. - per litre of must) degree (an acquired 10°5) base yield (45 hectolitres per hectare). |
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