Gains weight with aeration, displaying a more rounded feel than most of this vintage's Pauillacs.
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Juicy and forward in feel, with a core of red currant and cherry paste, backed by notes of savory, plum skin and roasted vanilla bean that steadily emerge through the finish. Add to Favorites Bottle 265.00 Size: 750ml Buy Bottle In Stock (7 Available) Bottle 630.00 Size: 1.5L Currently Out of Stock. Its length and its melted tannins are worthy of the greatest Pauillac. Today, a third family now oversees the destiny of this cru, with the aim of building on the work accomplished so far – and raising the level of quality and prestige still further.Īt the tasting, this wine reveals all its prestige and its class through a complexity and an aromatic richness that few wines are able to produce. This family business headed up by Frédéric Rouzaud already owned two other Bordeaux crus, Château de Pez and Chateau Haut Beauséjour, in addition to other high quality wines in Provence, Portugal and the United States.įor three whole centuries, just two families did their work to make the château and its wines famous. She chose Louis Roederer to take over from her. In 2007, Madame de Lencquesaing decided to pass on her vineyard, in order to secure its future. Administrator Christian Seeley thinks the 2010 is the greatest Pichon Longueville Baron he has ever made, equaling some of the estates colossal wines from. His efforts were rewarded in 1855, in the rankings carried out under Napoleon III, when the château was classed as a Second Cru. In spite of the difficult times he doggedly sought to improve the quality of the wine. He died at the age of 90, having lived through three revolutions, the reign of five kings, two republics and an empire. The young Baron Joseph de Pichon Longueville inherited the vineyard from his mother, Marie de Terrefort, when he was just 19.
The Pichon Longueville baronesses – Thérèse de Rauzan, Germaine de Lajus and Marie Branda de Terrefort – were a strong guiding influence, managing the vineyard until the eve of the French Revolution. And so began the history of one of the greatest Bordeaux vineyards, which stayed in the same family for over 250 years.Īs early as the eighteenth century, this great wine was already benefiting from a significant feminine touch. Pierre de Mazure de Rauzan, a wealthy bourgeois trader from Bordeaux, bought some vineyards near the Latour fiefdom and established a wine-growing estate, L’Enclos Rauzan.Ī little later his daughter, Thérèse, received it as a dowry for her marriage to Jacques François de Pichon Longueville, President of the Bordeaux Parliament. 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.Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande Description 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. Blend: 66 Cabernet Sauvignon, 24 Merlot, 7 Cabernet Franc, 3 Petit Verdot Critical. "The 2010 Pichon Lalande is performing extremely well and at the top of the range I predicted several years ago. Chateau Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande 2010 Winemaker Notes. Less opulent than the 2009 but with greater freshness and firmer, more tannic finish despite the higher proportion of merlot this year. In the palate the tannis appear mature and melted, revealing a strong affirmed structure a suprising suppleness,perfect harmony with long persistency. Chteau Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande, Pauillac 2me Grand Cru Class 2010. The nose is distinguished by a bouquet of aromas, mixing blackcurrant, cinnamon, vanilla and violet. Vineyards, located right next to the Gironde Estuary, cover 102ha and carefully selected fruit from over 70 plots make up the final wine. Since 2007, the chateau has been owned by the Louis Roederer champagne house and production is now organic/biodynamic. Chateau Pichon Longueville Comtesse de LalandeĪ blend of 66% Cabernet Sauvignon, 24% Merlot, 7% Cabernet Franc and 3% Petit Verdot
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