2002 Château Pichon-Longueville Baron

Community Tasting Notes (246) Avg Score: 91.3 points

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  4/19/2024 - WILDFANG Likes this wine: 92 Points

  This was surprisingly good. We bought this en premier and have been trying it ever since it landed -- it's our wedding year -- and this (our 8th bottle of 12) was by far the best we have had. Decanted for 2 hours, then back into the bottle to take to dinner. Still very dark and relatively unevolved in color, this had a lovely perfumed "classic Bordeaux" nose. Pichon Baron always has lovely purity of fruit, and in this case that has balanced very well with the fundamentally hard nature of the 2002 vintage to create a wine that has oodles of crunchy black fruit with plenty of backbone and "bite." No hurry to drink these; one of the better 2002s we have had.

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  3/16/2024 - Chrysostomus Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Looking very young and dark - fresh impression on the nose - black fruits, tobacco, coffee and pepper on the palate. Lacking a little bit of pressure on the palate but very good! Give it a few hours of air! 94 pts.

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  3/15/2024 - Albino105 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Ce vin, bien qu'en déclin, offre encore des notes subtiles et complexes qui témoignent de son passé glorieux. Sa robe, bien que légèrement ternie, conserve une certaine élégance. Au nez, les arômes autrefois intenses commencent à s'estomper, mais des notes de cassis et de boisé persistent encore. En bouche, la structure semble affaiblie, mais la finesse des tanins et la douceur des saveurs rappellent les grands millésimes passés. Il est indéniable que ce vin a atteint son apogée, mais il reste un témoignage émouvant de son histoire et mérite d'être dégusté pour saisir pleinement son caractère unique avant qu'il ne disparaisse complètement. 😋

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  3/4/2024 - S.Wayne Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Blind tasting
  Medium garnet, some bricking and sediment
  Aromatics medium +. Leather, earth, tobacco resin, dried leaves, old oak. Dark cherry. I didn't get the graphite or late bell peppers until after the reveal. Very complex.
  Palate has a medium body. Acid medium +. Tannins medium +, medium grained and integrated. Alcohol medium +. Dark plum, dried herbs
  Dry glass notes of soy sauce and wood
  Finish has a medium length. Balanced somewhat towards the tannins
  Not surprisingly this is all tertiary, but still has some pyrazines and darker fruit. I guessed a 2004 Sangiovese, but in retrospect the aromatics and tannin structure are classic aged Bordeaux.
  Drink now

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  3/4/2024 - dsamuel Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Opaque garnet with moderate bricking at rim
  High intensity aromatics of red and black fruit/ currant - quite complex with many secondaries of graphite/ cedar/ green pepper/ soy sauce and smoke - all underlaid by perfectly integrated oak spice aromas
  Medium plus body with palate of plum and black currant with tobacco and dry earth
  Medium plus tannins - medium grained and very well integrated - medium plus alcohol and medium plus acidity
  Beautiful length led by fruit/ oak and alcohol - again just a perfectly integrated wine at this time
  Dry glass aromas are just amazing
  This is drinking very well now and I believe is at its plateau, but I do enjoy some fruit in my aged wines, so some might see further benefit from aging

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