In 1850, Virginie de Pichon Longueville, Countess de Lalande, and her two sisters inherited three-fifths of the vineyard from their father. The Pichon Longueville estate goes back to 1688-1689. Here is a Pauillac brimming with tension and focus, the wine achieving tremendous precision on its long and persistent finish.
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The palate is medium-bodied but do not let that full you. It has a stunning, intense blackberry, mineral-laden nose that is suffused with great tension and vigour. Whether you like it more or less will depend on your point of view, but this wine, unlike most Pichon Lalandes, needs a good 5-7 years of cellaring and should keep for 30+ years. Full-bodied, impressively endowed, and less sexy and velvety than normal, this is a somewhat different style of Pichon Lalande than most readers have been used to. Structured, backward and tannic, yet showing a fat mid-palate that is more savory, broader and more expansive than I remember from barrel, this wine is somewhat reminiscent of the 1986, given the Cabernet Sauvignon domination of the blend. A final blend dominated much more by Cabernet Sauvignon than usual (66% Cabernet Sauvignon, 24% Merlot, 7% Cabernet Franc and the rest Petit Verdot), the wine is a tighter, more tannic and structured version of this famed Pauillac, which often tends to have more of a St-Julien-like personality than most Pauillacs.
Cellar Selection.ĩ5+ Point Wine Advocate -"The 2010 Pichon Lalande is performing extremely well and at the top of the range I predicted several years ago. It shows the soft side of the vintage, but is also meant for aging. It has a stronger presence of Cabernet Sauvignon in the blend than in the past, making it more structured than its predecessors, with a dominance of black currant flavor. 96 Point Wine Enthusiast - "With signs of new wood on the palate, this is a wine that maintains the polished feel of the wines from Pichon Lalande.
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