![]() Grand Cru can be used for Banyuls aged more than 30 months, a very complex, balanced and lingering wine with some reserve left – the winner of the evening.Īnd if you wonder what happened to the half bottle of Château Lafaurie-Peyraguey, Sauternes 2001… I used most of it to make aspic that was served with the fresh foie gras terrine. This house does not exist anymore, they made their last vintage wine in 1982 and we happened to open a bottle that had gone bad.īanyuls Grand Cru 1949, bottled for Domaines et Terroirs du Sud Thirty eight years is pushing it for this wine (at least this bottle), most of the fruit is gone and wet leaves and cigar box aromas are present.īeautiful complexity with enough acidity left to make it very enjoyable – perfect! Thirty years old and still holding up, at this age there is more bottle variation but we were lucky, the wine still had enough fruit and structure to be very enjoyable, one of the wines of the evening.Ĭhâteau Mouton Baronne Philippe, Pauillac 1982įor those who are not familiar with this Château, its name changed in 1989 to Château d’Armailhac. Still young, full bodied with the typical Saint-Émilion elegance, well balanced with a lingering taste, one of the wines of the evening.Ĭhâteau Branaire-Ducru, Saint-Julien 2005Ĭhâteau Pichon-Longueville Baron, Pauillac 1989 Chateau Pichon Baron has a long history, and Ill mention the most important facts here. Anticipated maturity: Now-2017.Château Lafleur-Cardinale, Saint-Émilion Grand Cru Classé 2009 Some tannins remain, but this wine has reached its plateau of maturity, where it should remain for another 10-15 years. A hot dry vintage that at over 30 years old is really beginning to be sorted out into the great and. Both the 19 vintages exhibit opaque, dense purple colors that suggest massive wines of considerable extraction and richness. The wine is lush, medium to full-bodied, and layered with texture, low acidity, sweet tannin, and the hallmark purity and elegance this estate routinely produces. 1989 Chateau Pichon Baron, 2nd Growth Pauillac (Bottle). The nose offers sweet plums and creme de cassis intermixed with vanilla and graphite. In the seventeenth century, Jacques de Pichon Longueville Baron, began to construct the vineyard of Pichon-Longueville. Unmistakably Pauillac, and hugely Cabernet dominant, with savoury spice notes of grilled cumin and the same muscular, saline-backed tannins that you find in Les Griffons, just here with more definition and depth. Wines from Comtesse de Lalande are some of the more voluptuous to come from the Médoc due to the high proportion of Merlot in the wine.Īpproaching full maturity, Pichon-Lalande’s 1989 has a deep ruby/plum color with some lightening at the edge. The host provided me with the list of wines that would be served and to my great pleasure I saw Chteau Pichon-Longueville Baron 1989 was to be opened. A muscular Pichon Baron, layered with liquorice and chocolate shavings. The Saint-Julien holding covers twelve hectares (30 acres) and although the estate has produced a simplified labeled Saint-Julien, this wine is now rarely encountered.įive Bordeaux grapes are grown on the estate’s vineyards, although the grand vin is historically dominated by Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Petit Verdot (with Cabernet Sauvignon making up 60 percent of the blend). The bouquet is intense: aromas of blackberry, cedar, and a touch of bacon fat and mint. The Pichon-Lalande estate covers 85 hectares (210 acres) in both Pauillac and Saint-Julien. The 1989 Pichon-Baron remains a magnificent wine after almost 30 years. All three estates share something of a similar terroir and climate, which partly helps to explain the quality of the wine at Comtesse de Lalande – which is sometimes referred to as “nearly first growth”. Pichon-Lalande also neighbors first-growth powerhouse, Château Latour at the southern end of the Pauillac appellation. Often shortened in common parlance to “Pichon-Lalande” or “Pichon Comtesse” (partly to differentiate it from a neighbor, Château Pichon-Longueville Baron), the estate produces a regularly lauded, Cabernet Sauvignon-dominant grand vin. The attack is mellow and the palate, like the nose, is precise and refined. The nose is expressive and delicate, offering a wonderfully aromatic range of summer berries, black cherries and blueberries, very lightly underpinned by a toasted spiciness. of the most significant second growths in Pauillac, Bordeaux. The color of Château Pichon Baron 2015 is intense deep garnet red. ![]() ![]() 1989 Chateau Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande Grand Cru ClasseĬhâteau Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande is a highly regarded wine estate in the Pauillac appellation of the Haut-Médoc region of northern Bordeaux. ![]()
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