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Community Tasting Notes (199) Avg Score: 91.7 points

  • Tasted double blind. While the vintage may not be among the great ones, this Pichon showed well tonight. Initially, there were some slightly murky notes, but fortunately, they quickly faded away, revealing a classic and enjoyable Bordeaux. It may be beyond its peak, yet it retains sufficient structure and fruitiness to remain good for a few more years.

    TN: Shy but inviting bouquet with dark berries and some smoke notes. On the palate with a bit more intensity and clearer defined dark fruits, alongside classic graphite minerality, smoke and leathery notes and herbs. Melted tannins but still good tension, good freshness and overall very well balanced. Overall, this wine misses a bit of depth and definition.

    Decanting: Not decanted, a short decant should be sufficient.

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  • Tasted blind. Broad range of tertiary aromas, foliage and wet earth. On balance more red berry type of fruit. Forest berries, wild strawberries and cranberries. Plenty of dried herbs such as oregano. Juicy palate with nice fruit and sufficient structure. Balance leaning towards acidity. Drinks beautifully especially for the vintage. Decades of aging must have sold a lot of problems... That said, if you have the choice probably 1980 would be the better off-vintage choice with a bit more structure.

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  • Xmas dinner at Old Holland. Needed my Durand to extract the last bit of broken cork. Shoulder ullage. Advised them against decanting this - good call. Fruit faded after about an hour of air in bottle. Drank in Gabriel Standart.
    Apearance is clear (sediments toward bottom quarter of bottle), medium intensity, ruby colour with thin garnet rim. Legs.
    Nose is clean, medium+ intensity, with aromas of tobacco, cigar, tertiary earth, bell pepper, cedar. Developed.
    On the palate, dry, medium+ acidity, medium- alcohol, mellowed resolved tannin, medium+ body. Medium flavour intensity, with flavours of cedar, tertiary earth, tobacco and old cigar box, some blackcurrant. Medium+ finish.
    Very good quality while it lasted. Elegant and regal. Drink up.

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  • This was a perfectly enjoyable old claret. A sound bottle, transparent ruby color. Green, with some red bell pepper notes, no brett, but one would not be far off to guess this as a well aged cab franc!

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  • Subsequent notes on this wine from over nine years ago. Dark garnet with some clearing at the edges. Full, forward & fragrant nose of well developed & mature ripe fruit aromas of dark cherries, cassis & plums with classic cigar box overtones of cedar & tobacco, leather, floral notes of violets & lavender, herbal notes, olives, underbrush & a hint of green bell pepper. Meduim bodied with a good concentration of well balanced & smooth textured, well developed & mature ripe fruit flavors of cherries, currants & plums with spices, herbs, cocoa, mushrooms & minerals. Long lingering smooth finish. Drinks quite well at 44 years of age but appears to be close to or at its peak of development, so drink up. Fill was in lower neck; cork was stained 1/3 but intact.

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  • By Neal Martin
    Two Imaginary Boys: Pichon-Lalande (Aug 2019), 8/1/2019, (See more on Vinous...)

    (Pichon-longueville Comtesse De Lalande Pichon-longueville Comtesse De Lalande Red) Login and sign up and see review text.

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  • By Richard Jennings
    11/9/2014, (See more on RJonWine.com...) 93 points

    (Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande) Bricking, medium dark red violet color; mature, aromatic, tobacco, green olive, cedar, tart red currant nose; very tasty, surprisingly youthful, tobacco, tart red currant, green olive, mineral palate with medium acidity; medium-plus finish

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