2018 Château Pichon-Longueville Baron

Community Tasting Notes (30) Avg Score: 95.4 points

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  2/6/2024 - PSPatrick wrote: 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.

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  9/23/2023 - Agunner23 wrote: flawed

  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.

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  9/23/2023 - Agunner23 Likes this wine: 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.

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  5/23/2023 - merlotsmile wrote:

  Bordeaux 23-05-23 (Left Bank): C

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  5/14/2023 - Collector1855 wrote: 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+

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