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Château Pichon Baron Grand Cru Classé Pauillac 2019

Reviews

100 -Wine Enthusiast -

99 -James Suckling -

Blackberries and blueberries with stone and graphite. Flint and black licorice, too. So perfumed. Full-bodied, very long and linear with incredible length. The new 1990, but better crafted. Chewy, yet so tailored and wonderfully proportioned. Freshness and elegance. Wonderful depth. 87% cabernet sauvignon rest merlot. The highest ever proportion of cabernet. Try after 2026.

98+ -Jeb Dunnuck -

Based on 87% Cabernet Sauvignon and 13% Merlot raised in 80% new French oak, the 2019 Château Pichon-Longueville Baron is pure class and just a beautiful, seamless Pauillac that does everything right. Revealing a deep purple hue as well textbook notes of blackcurrants, smoked tobacco, freshly sharpened pencils, and liquid violets, it shows the more medium to full-bodied, elegant style of the vintage yet is brilliantly concentrated, has a supple, layered mouthfeel, ripe yet building tannins, and a great, great finish. It's more open and expressive than Mouton and shares plenty of similarities with Comtesse with its layered, supple, just perfectly balanced and classy style. It unquestionably already offers pleasure today (and it's a good time to try a bottle, as I wouldn't be surprised to see it close down), but it will need a decade to hit maturity and it will be a 50-year wine.

97+ -Robert Parker's Wine Advocate -

The 2019 Pichon-Longueville Baron will go down as one of this château's great wines of the modern era, along with 2016, 2010 and 1989. Unfurling in the glass with aromas of cassis and plums mingled with notions of cigar wrapper, sweet loamy soil and violets, it's full-bodied, velvety and layered, with superb concentration, lively acids and rich, powdery tannins. Perfumed and resonant, this is a profound young Pauillac that bears more of a resemblance to its neighbor Château Latour than to Pichon Lalande this year. Pichon Baron was one of the great deals of the en primeur campaign, and readers who purchased futures are to be congratulated on their foresight.

97 -Wine Spectator -

Expressive and vibrant, with a cassis bush aroma that leaps to the forefront, followed quickly by sleek and dense black currant, black Mission fig and black cherry preserve flavors flanked by a racy graphite note. Shows a burst of sweet bay leaf and savory accents through the finish, as the fruit takes an encore before zooming off. A serious wine with a hint of bling. Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. Best from 2025 through 2045.

97 -Vinous -

The 2019 Pichon Baron is quite closed on the nose, blackberry, bilberry and incense, with graphite and cedar developing with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins, not quite as finessed as Pichon Lalande, but with great structure and density on the close. It needs a little more precision to develop on the finish but just give it time. Tasted blind at the Southwold annual tasting.

97 -Decanter -

At the moment, Pichon Baron is outmuscling it's neighbour across the road. Intense, concentrated and inky dark-currant fruit on the palate with pronounced lead-pencil/mineral notes. 80% new oak. Yet there is more than just power here, with an elegance derived from floral notes, violet aromas, a hint of graphite and velvety tannins. The oak is so well-integrated. A very fine Pauillac with decades of life ahead.

Technical Details

Blend 87% Cabernet Sauvignon, 13% Merlot
Winemaker Jean-René Matignon and Alexandra Lebossé
Country France
Region Bordeaux
Sub Region Left Bank
Appellation Haut-Médoc
Vineyard Estate vineyard of 73 hectares with old vines averaging 40 years of age. The fruit for this wine comes from a selected 40 hectare lot.
Farming Method Sustainably farmed, with High Environmental Value (HVE / Haute Valeur Environnementale) Level 3 certification
Oak 80% new and 20% second fill French oak
Fermentation Fermented in temperature-controlled traditional Bordeaux vats
Aging / Cooperage 18 months in 80% new and 20% second fill French oak
Alcohol 14.5%
Production 13,800 cases

Château Pichon Baron Grand Cru Classé Pauillac 2019

Name: Château Pichon Baron Grand Cru Classé Pauillac 2019
Brand: First Bottle
SKU: 1015016
Price: 159.95 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

Red Blends | Bordeaux

WE100, JS99, JD98+, WA97+, WS97, VN97, DC97

Sustainably farmed, with High Environmental Value (HVE / Haute Valeur Environnementale) Level 3 certification

$250.00

$159.95

750ML

36% OFF RETAIL!

Wine Enthusiast awarded the 2019 Pichon Baron 100 points, James Suckling 99, Jeb Dunnuck 98+, Wine Advocate 97+, Wine Spectator 97, Vinous 97, and Decanter 97. There is essentially no critical daylight between these scores, which tells you how rare a performance like this is. The 2019 vintage gave the estate a level of quality that has not been seen from this address in decades, if ever. Deep, precise, and layered, with an extraordinary combination of power and freshness: dark cassis, iron, lead pencil, and complex aromatics leading to a full, concentrated palate of stunning definition and length. The price here reflects how seriously we took this acquisition. Don't wait.

About The Producer

The twin to Pichon Comtesse across the road, yet unmistakably its own animal. The estate traces its founding to 1694, when Thérèse de Rauzan received the vineyard as part of her dowry upon marrying Baron Jacques Pichon de Longueville, and it remained in the family's hands for nearly two and a half centuries. In 1850 the original unified Pichon estate was divided, with Baron Raoul's share becoming Pichon Baron, earning Second Growth status in the 1855 Classification. After the Bouteiller family's long stewardship, the estate fell into a period of underperformance relative to its classified status, and the decisive turning point came in 1987 when AXA Millésimes acquired the property. Jean-Michel Cazes of Château Lynch-Bages was appointed administrator, launching a sweeping program of investment and restoration that included a striking new winery, deep terroir mapping, and a commitment to Pauillac's most ambitious winemaking standards. Today the estate is managed by Christian Seely, with Pierre Montégut serving as technical director since 2022, and winemaker Alexandra Lebossé, who has been with the estate since 1999. The 73-hectare vineyard is planted predominantly to Cabernet Sauvignon (65%) and Merlot (30%), with parcel-by-parcel vinification across 44 stainless steel vats lending the winemaking a precision that is reflected in the glass. Where Pichon Comtesse leans toward sensuality and silk, Pichon Baron delivers power, structure, and the kind of Pauillac backbone built for the long haul.

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