Community Tasting Notes 10

• Burgundy Al wrote:

  February 7, 2020 - Wines for the Acker Merrall Bicentennial Auction (The Pool - New York NY): Walk around tasting. Lots of earth, cigarbox, with fully matured memories of black fruit. Certainly very interesting and enjoyable, but a wine I consider more interesting than tasty.

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• hprphf wrote: 93 points

  February 7, 2020 - Acker 2020/02: Lots of cool mint, truffle earthy palate, still some acidity left, overall good. 93

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• The Vines That Bind wrote: 95 points

  February 14, 2017 - Great bottle, fill into neck, great colour, and the cork gave a nice hiss and pop on removal suggesting a great seal as well. The wine was quiet for 15 minutes or so, and then absolutely blossomed. The bouquet included all the buzzwords associate with Pauillac, and Lalande in particular, with red cedar, forest floor, damp leather, lead pencil, chocolate, and rich blackberry and red cherry. Spicy cigar tobacco with traces of smoke and ash emerges as well. The palate benefitted with decanting and grew into a robust and fully mature Pauillac with creme-de-cassis, blackberry, chocolate covered cherries, and sweeter cherry fruit in the finish. The wine was still well structured with tannin, acid, and fruit flavor all stable and well balanced. Just excellent and so happy to have had such a perfect bottle.

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• Fred_Bo Likes this wine: 96 points

  August 17, 2016 - WOW! This bottle was a chateau bottle.
  
  The fill wasn't too great. Only a mid-shoulder fill but the cork was in great shape and came out in one piece.
  
  The initial nose was promising something incredible for the night! And boy did it deliver!
  
  This had 4 stages - both the nose and the palate.
  
  First stage - intense (green) acidity with all kinds of tropical fruit and then some dusty tobacco wood.
  
  2nd stage - HERE COMES THE CASSIS. This is so lovely - so elegant but still powerful. Blackberries, Creme de Cassis, cedarwood, a bit dusty earth. lovely.
  
  3rd stage - it's all about the tobacco - now the tobacco wants to join the party. All the other notes are there but tobacco definitely wants to be the main focus.
  
  4th stage - everything intertwined and settled into their places. Fantastic! I really really loved this bottle!

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• LWI wrote: 93 points

  April 19, 2016 - Pichon Lalande Tasting: (IN fill, reconditioned at the Chateau in 1981, Adouzed for 2 hours). Initially more dark-fruited than the -28, complex nose, minerals, ‘youngish’; In the mouth: fresh wine with still much fruit, quite angular and strict, actually more so than the -28, surprisingly big bodied. After 45 minutes it falls slowly apart. 93p for the first half hour.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1934
• Type Red
• Producer Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Médoc
• Appellation Pauillac

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• Pending Delivery 1 (4%)
• In Cellars 14 (61%)
• Consumed 8 (35%)

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