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| Community Tasting Notes (average 95.4 pts. and median of 95 pts. in 34 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by PSPatrick on 2/6/2024 & rated 95 points: Half-bottle. Very tight upon opening, so I decanted the wine for three hours in a small decanter which did the trick. Dark ruby colour. Ripe dark and red fruit, ripe black currant, dark cherry, ripe blackberry, ripe blueberry, kirsch, dark plum, dark chocolate, cocoa, espresso, graphite, cedar, spices, and vanilla, with medium-level acidity, ripe, round tannin, and very good length. Intriguing sweetness from the fruit and the well-integrated oak. Great structure and impressive, almost oily concentration. Wow! The best young Bordeaux I have had in some time. (3842 views) | | | Tasted by Agunner23 on 9/23/2023 & rated 95 points: I love this wine! It does not get the love it deserves as an '18. A massive wine with 14.5 ABV and it is hard to tell that. My local store used Corvain on bottle for me to try and I was hooked. I bought them out (4 bottles) and don't regret it. And now I want more and the are out of stock so I bought 12 more at auction for about $35 less a bottle than retail including buyer's premium l. If you find a bottle give it a try. (4705 views) | | | Tasted by Agunner23 on 9/23/2023 flawed bottle: OK this is more of a story than a review. So I pulled the bottle of the wine fridge and inserted the coravin and gave a couple squirts of gas and the wine started to flow so I gave it a couple more quick presses on the button. And wham the cork loosened up and took flight with the coravin. It sprayed me and the wall with about half the bottle. I used a half of a roll of paper towels to clean up and now the wall is ruined. I was so mad I just put the bottle down and threw my arms up in defeat. The next day I found the cork and it was narrow at the top and bottom. You could use one finger to push the cork more than half way into the bottle. So I took it back to the store and have to wait till Monday for the wine manager to come back. We will see what they say. Defective cork. Has this happened to anyone else or just my dumb luck. (5484 views) | | | Tasted by merlotsmile on 5/23/2023: Bordeaux 23-05-23 (Left Bank): C (6658 views) | | | Tasted by Collector1855 on 5/14/2023 & rated 96 points: Bordeaux 2022 en Primeur and some recent vintages: A very well made 2018. Dark fruit, forest floor, good freshness and massive structure but not with excessive heat. A great Pauillac. 96+ (7912 views) | | | Tasted by WineBurrowingWombat on 1/7/2023 & rated 96 points: Nose: [58°] White and red flowers, dark note of black olives, wet river stones, soft red currants, dark brambles, and damp mulch. [62°] Within a couple of hours, black fruits become more pronounced with some ripeness and scents of a lit cigar with floral notes. The floral notes grow to the size of a monster with tons of air.
Palate: [58°] Tons of fresh and bright black fruits. A hint of brine on the mid to end palate, what I imagine to be cigar ash, pencil shavings with lead and all. Finishes with lots of steeped tea and almost briny minerals. [62°] With some time, the black fruits tone down its fresh brightness and transitions towards a more darker, brooding profile, all while integrating with the briny minerals and savory tannin.
Attributes: Clear, slightly dark medium ruby. Dry with medium to medium-plus amounts of fine, chewy tannin. Medium body with medium-plus acidity. Good finish of at least 16-18 seconds.
Thoughts: Amazing aromas, initially quite unique but eventually turns into something more familiar. Loved the flavor profile of fresh fruits plus the savory and almost salty notes. Very young so the intensity for the salty and savory notes was up there but it was still quite tasty. This should be able to develop and integrate much more in the future. My hope is that the all the flavors balance out a bit more while still keeping some of the brininess and savoriness. If the trajectory of flavors are to stay the same, I'm not sure if I would enjoy this with tons of age, like 15-20 years, but rather much less like 8-14 years. 95-97
Serving notes: Bordeaux glass. Served one glass and emptied bottle into a decanter at cellar temp ~55° and consumed over 8 hours. Recommend serving ~58°-62° with a decant of at least 1-2 hours at cellar temp if opening now. (7308 views) | | | Tasted by BigBoy_Sonoma on 1/3/2023 & rated 96 points: Black fruit, cedar, hints of cassis and anise, lots of spice and herbal notes. A (5442 views) | | | Tasted by stschutz on 12/31/2022 & rated 96 points: Very, very young, but so much potential. The structure and acid and thick dusty tannins are all there to make this a blockbuster in due time. Beautiful deep ruby color, cigar nose and mid-palate, slight vanilla, and long legs.
Almost makes me think this is, dare say it, the kind of wine Caymus strived to make back in their hey day before they took the fork in the road towards a more extracted, imbalanced fruit bomb. Hold for 5+ years before trying and you will not regret holding it. - Enjoyed on New Year's Eve here in Eunpyeong. (5455 views) | | | Tasted by Giggs on 11/18/2022 & rated 95 points: Wines You Dream Of (Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio): A serious wine with tons of extract, graphite mineral, all that Pauillac Cabernet character right on target. (4711 views) | | | Tasted by Irish_Wine on 11/1/2022 & rated 94 points: A little shy on the nose with underlying deep black currant, cedar, blackberry, sweet spices.
Lovely depth on the palate but hard to assess at this stage.
*** Tasted as part of a walkaround 2018 Bordeaux tasting. Not full notes *** (2453 views) | | | Tasted by Philolesen on 10/27/2022 & rated 94 points: Enjoyed together with Christian Seely, MD of Pichon Baron.
More fruit driven nose than the 2015. Black currants, red berries and very subtle and complex. Way too young. Dry tannins. Very elegant and smooth.
94+p (4472 views) | | | Tasted by Ispendtoomuchmoneyonwine on 9/3/2022 & rated 95 points: Popped the cork and what a aroma dark fruit leather cassis currents plenty of structure not overly tannic. Great balance after a few hours very smooth tannins it did shut down a bit. This should be in its prime in 3 years and last a good 25 years. Great wine (3966 views) | | | Tasted by Chrysostomus on 4/9/2022 & rated 98 points: The best experience with a young Bdx I've ever had (never had the 1er's in their youth)! Black tea, dark fruits, wet stone. Very expressive and fresh. Complex and not "overfruited"! Perfect balance and an incredible long finish. Tannins so well integrated! Give at least 4 hours of air and enjoy over the next hours/days! 97-98+ (2587 views) | | | Tasted by fcxj on 4/8/2022 & rated 90 points: Inky. (5676 views) | | | Tasted by sirpat00 on 4/2/2022 & rated 95 points: Tasted at the Matter of Taste Zurich 2022 Walkaround Tour, hence only brief notes: Ripe cherry and raspberry fruit with crushed pepper, spice and light oak notes. Palate showed great tension and lively acidity. A great Pichon Baron that I have scored equally to 2016 in the past. (5606 views) | | | Tasted by BigBoy_Sonoma on 3/27/2022 & rated 96 points: Black fruit, cedar, graphite, herbal notes, black licorice, smokey oak A finishes with layered complexity A (4721 views) | | | Tasted by Andre Brattland on 11/30/2021 & rated 95 points: Fiery and lively aromas with wonderful peppercorns that lie over tangled pipe tobacco, pencil tip, leather, licorice and with a clear and beautiful blackberry character. Good full-bodied and wonderfully masculine wine with a brilliant fruit image of blackberries, leather, licorice, slant, graphite and chalk. Long complex finish. The acid keeps it properly in the ears and gives a brilliant fresh wine. Brilliant wine. (8139 views) | | | Tasted by nwebstar on 11/23/2021 & rated 96 points: Bordeaux 2018 - Langtons tasting (Virtual with samples sent): For me this presented as a absolute classic Paulliac. Dark fruited and tannic - lovely balance of fruit and structure. It really hits you and portends of a long interesting future. I dubbed this ‘the structured classic’. (5833 views) | | | Tasted by iobtoel on 11/7/2021 & rated 96 points: Dark impenetrable. Very closed nose. Doesn’t give much away on the nose. Just hints of dark chocolate and cigar. Precise on the palate. Crisp high toned ferrous notes. Fine grained tannins. A tad bit drying at the end with a sweet finish. (4590 views) | | | Tasted by BAJRiley on 11/4/2021 & rated 96 points: Taste with Langton's 2018 Top Chateau of Bordeaux - virtual event. Decanted two hours prior.
Appearance: bright purple. Nose: more perfumed than others in the flight. At this stage a classic but youthful Pauillac profile of blackcurrant, cedar and pencil shavings. Palate: medium to full body, intense, finely grained tannins. Another beauty from this tasting. (4156 views) | | | Tasted by englishman's claret on 9/14/2021 & rated 96 points: Admittedly, I approached the 2018 with some trepidation given the heat of the vintage. And yet - this is beautiful. Black fruit, a touch of black olive, and lots of gravel spring from the glass. On the palate, this does a rare thing - expertly walking the line between opulence and precision on the palate. Simply put: superb.
96-97 points (6835 views) | | | Tasted by KenK on 6/6/2021 & rated 94 points: Vinous Seminar: black fruit cedar graphite mint is typical. When Seely took over he separated the Vin Grande to be much stricter on selection Les than 1/2 of what it was 20 years ago, more consistent more classic Pauallic. Typically, opulent.
Inky black fruited mineral driven aromas, powerful and big with a roasted espresso hit. Dense pure fruited with a dusty nearly lush texture. Long length with a perfumed flavor and a classic dirty dense Pauillac quality. Dense and chewy. Nice cherry quality throughout. 94-96 (5233 views) | | | Tasted by Jeff Leve on 3/9/2021 & rated 98 points: Incredibly dark in color, the wine pops with Cuban cigar, cedar, herbs, tobacco leaf, red and black currants, forest floor and peppery spice box aromas. This could be the most concentrated, powerful vintage of Pichon Baron ever produced. The wine is very concentrated, full and deep. Yet, with all this depth of flavor, everything remains perfectly balanced. The tannins are ripe. Full-bodied and lush on the palate, with layers of sweet, ripe, dark red fruits in the finish, the wine really sticks with you. Jean-Rene Matignon feels this is his best vintage. I am not sure I agree. But if it is not, it is damn close to it! The wine blends 78% Cabernet Sauvignon and 22% Merlot. Due to its immense power, this is the only vintage of Pichon Baron aged in 100% new oak, however, the oak is already fully integrated into the wine. (6706 views) | | | Tasted by Keith Levenberg on 11/7/2020 & rated 93 points: A surprisingly soft and elegant take on Baron from a vintage I'd have thought would be more inclined towards redlining the dials. But for better or for worse this isn't the powerhouse the 2016 was, and is both lighter weight and lighter-toned. It's red-fruited and cedary with stylish oak, the tannins plush and refined right out of the gate. It's lovely but I must admit with the '16 being one of my WOTVs, I expected a performance a bit more dramatic out of this. (9431 views) | | | Tasted by R J Lewis on 10/13/2020: N: pronounced, full exotic nose.
P: Full polished, rich and delicious. Waves of flavour, black fruit. Outstanding. (4401 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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Background: Pichon Longueville Baron stretches out on beautiful land with soil made of gravels from la Garonne river in the south of the appellation, on a plateau that serves as a transition between the commune of Pauillac and Saint-Julien. Planted with vines since the late seventeenth century, it became almost immediately famous. Produced by Jacques de Pichon Baron de Longueville, the wines of Pichon Baron were challenging the quality of those of Latour in the early eighteenth century. Promoted Second Cru Classé in 1855, the estate is divided for the inheritance, and the wines are vinified separately since 1860: Raoul, only surviving son of the Baron Joseph, takes the helm of the current Pichon Longueville Baron, often called "Pichon Baron," while his daughter Virginia, wife of Comte de Lalande, receives the other portion of the property, hence the name of her part : Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande. Red Bordeaux BlendRed Bordeaux is generally made from a blend of grapes. Permitted grapes are Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Malbec and rarely Carménère.Today Carménère is rarely used, with Château Clerc Milon, a fifth growth Bordeaux, being one of the few to still retain Carménère vines. As of July 2019, Bordeaux wineries authorized the use of four new red grapes to combat temperature increases in Bordeaux. These newly approved grapes are Marselan, Touriga Nacional, Castets, and Arinarnoa.
Wineries all over the world aspire to making wines in a Bordeaux style. In 1988, a group of American vintners formed The Meritage Association to identify wines made in this way. Although most Meritage wines come from California, there are members of the Meritage Association in 18 states and five other countries, including Argentina, Australia, Canada, Israel, and Mexico.France Vins de France (Office National Interprofessionnel des Vins ) | Pages Vins, Directory of French Winegrowers | French Wine (Wikipedia)
Wine Scholar Guild vintage ratings
2018 vintage: "marked by a wet spring, a superb summer and a good harvest"
2019 vintage reports
2021: "From a general standpoint, whether for white, rosé or red wines, 2021 is a year marked by quality in the Rhône Valley Vineyards. Structured, elegant, fresh and fruity will be the main keywords for this new vintage."
2022 harvest: idealwine.info | wine-searcher.comBordeaux Bordeaux Wine Guide
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"2009 is all about ripeness, with wines impressively packed with ripe fruit and high alcohol levels. They are showy, in-your-face, and full of pleasure. The 2010s have the fruit and alcohol levels of the 2009s, but with a compelling freshness on the finish that balances the fruit and provides a perfect sense of structure." - Ben Nelson
"2016 is a landmark vintage in certain spots of Bordeaux and it should be remembered as one of the most inspired campaigns of the last 40-50+ years." -Jon Rimmerman
"The quality of red Bordeaux in 2016 was universally lauded – although the response to the en primeur campaign was muted. Quantity was high too, with the equivalent of 770 million bottles of wine produced. An exceptionally dry summer with cool nights eventually, thanks to mid September rain, resulted in small, thick-skinned, ripe grapes, and the wines are marked by high tannin and acidity, with superb aromatic fragrance." - Jancis Robinson
"2017 was complicated, but there are some excellent wines. Expect plenty of freshness and drinkability from wines that will offer excellent value, and others that will rival 2016 in terms of ripeness and ageability. But they are likely to be the exception not the rule, making careful selection key." - Jane Anson
"In the past, a vintage such as 2022 may have been overripe, raisined and low in acidity but 2022 had a sneaky little reservoir in its back pocket - a near perfect marriage of cool/cold/rain the previous winter and the previous vintage that literally soaked the soils (a key to why 2022 is not 2003...or 1893)." - Jon RimmermanMédoc Vins du Médoc (Conseil des Vins du Médoc) - Read More about the Medoc
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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.Pauillac Read more detailed information about Pauillac 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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