Bordeaux 2024: Tasting at Pichon Baron

Distinctive circular barrel room just below the Chateau courtyard; wines are powerful, ripe and fruity as advertised; this is a benchmark Pauillac with not much else;

• 2019 Château Pichon-Longueville Baron Les Tourelles de Longueville 88 Points

  France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Pauillac

  Ripe cherries; pungent; young, easy; strawberry; very sweet; 60pc Merlot; coarse; unpolished, dark coffee tannins; 14.5pc;

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• 2019 Château Pichon-Longueville Baron Les Griffons de Pichon Baron 87 Points

  France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Pauillac

  More Merlot, 49pc Cabernet, given vintage; black fruit, cassis, polished tannins, more acid; 14.5pc;

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• 2019 Château Pichon-Longueville Baron 91 Points

  France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Pauillac

  Pungent, flowery nose; red fruit; spice on nose; very sweet; little tannin; acids not wide; very astringent; velvety; 13pc Merlot; somewhat decadent and candied though one-sided; power, 14.5pc; apricot, dates;

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• 2018 Château Pichon-Longueville Baron 88 Points

  France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Pauillac

  14.5pc; 22pc Merlot; jam, fruity nose unlike 14' or 19'; raisin, sherry; coarsest tannins, least tertiary of the 3;

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• 2014 Château Pichon-Longueville Baron 91 Points

  France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Pauillac

  Austere; cold year; very tertiary, cinnamon, sweet spice; 14.5pc; 20pc Merlot, ferment; yoghurt; vanilla; softer; less astringent vs 19'; least cherry and red fruit; 13.5pc

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