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Chateau Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande Grand Cru Classé Pauillac 2019

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99 -Jeb Dunnuck -

Pure class, the 2019 Château Pichon-Longueville Comtesse De Lalande is another brilliant wine from director Nicolas Glumineau that checks in at the top of the vintage. A blend of 71% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23% Merlot, and 6% Cabernet Franc that was harvested from mid-September through October 8th. Brought up in roughly 60% new French oak, it hit 14.1% natural alcohol with a pH of 3.7. More elegant and poised from bottle than barrel, it offers a brilliant perfume of crème de cassis, lead pencil shavings, tobacco leaf, damp earth, and graphite. Deep, full-bodied, and pure perfection on the palate, it has this incredible marriage of Latour-like stature and regalness buffered by wonderful, sexy, seamless fruit, which no doubt comes from the higher Merlot content and makes Comtesse de Lalande so singular and unique. It builds slowly with time in the glass and has remarkable purity of fruit, ultra-fine tannins, perfect balance, and a finish that just begs you to pour another glass. It has a seductive, seamless profile that offers pleasure even today (although it needs lots of air to show at its best) yet needs 7-8 years of bottle age to hit the early stages of its prime drink window and will evolve for another 40-50 years if stored properly.

98 -Vinous -

The 2019 Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande demands more coaxing from the glass, but it rewards patience with compelling graphite-infused black fruit, unapologetically classic in style, the terroir flooding through. The palate is medium-bodied with wonderful sapidity, gorgeous balance and a pure yet powerful finish that makes you wish you could build a time machine and taste it in 20 years. Sublime. Tasted blind at the Southwold annual tasting.

98 -Robert Parker's Wine Advocate -

One of the wines of the vintage, the 2019 Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande soars from the glass with complex aromas of wild berries, tobacco leaf, loamy soil, burning embers and hints of violets and rose petals. Full-bodied, deep and complete, it’s velvety and seamless, with a broad attack and a multidimensional core of lively, succulent fruit. Concluding with a long, expansive finish, it’s a remarkable young Pauillac that will offer many years of thrilling drinking. Congratulations to Nicolas Glumineau and his team, who are ushering in a new golden age at an address where standards were always very high.

97 -Wine Enthusiast -

97 -Decanter -

Inky in hue, concentrated and designed for the long-haul, Pichon Comtesse is very backwards in the glass on initial tasting. After five minutes in the glass the wine's characters start to emerge – dark berry fruit, exotic spices, hints of chocolate and some floral notes of violet/rose. The wine is elegant and precise, with all the components in place for two to three decades of ageing. The Baron has the edge at the moment but I suspect Comtesse will win through at the end.

96 -Wine Spectator -

Delivers a gorgeous wave of just-warmed cassis, plum puree and black cherry reduction flavors that glides through so suavely, thanks to a silky, refined structure. This is no lightweight though, as there's a rivet of iron to pin down the finish while savory and floral details play out amid the fruit. Offers the density, purity and drive to hang with the more long-lived wines of the vintage. Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet Franc. Best from 2025 through 2042.

Technical Details

Blend 71% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23% Merlot, 6% Cabernet Franc
Winemaker Nicolas Glumineau and Stéphanie Danglade
Country France
Region Bordeaux
Sub Region Left Bank
Appellation Haut-Médoc
Vineyard Estate vineyard of 86 hectares
Farming Method Sustainable viticulture with biodynamic practices on 28 ha
Oak 60% new French oak
Fermentation Fermentation in 70 temperature-controlled stainless steel vats that vary in size from as small as 50 hectoliters to 70, 80,120 and even 150 hectoliters. This allows for very precise fermentation work. Malolactic fermentation takes place in tanks
Aging / Cooperage 18 months in 60% new French oak
Alcohol 14%

Chateau Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande Grand Cru Classé Pauillac 2019

Name: Chateau Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande Grand Cru Classé Pauillac 2019
Brand: First Bottle
SKU: 1010206
Price: 179.95 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

Bordeaux Blends | Bordeaux

JD99, VN98, WA98, WE97, DC97, WS96

Sustainable viticulture with biodynamic practices on 28 ha

$390.00

$179.95

750ML

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"La Comtesse" is Pauillac aristocracy, a Second Growth on a dreamy stretch of gravel overlooking the Gironde. Director Nicolas Glumineau created the 2019 from 71% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23% Merlot, and 6% Cabernet Franc, and critics couldn't stop calling it one of the wines of the vintage. Silk-wrapped power with limitless grace.

About The Producer

Few estates in the Médoc have been so consistently shaped by the women who owned and ran them, and few Second Growths have so reliably punched into First Growth territory. The estate traces its origins to 1689, when Pierre de Rauzan founded the vineyard, with the Pichon Longueville family assuming ownership in 1694. In 1850, following a division of the original estate through inheritance, the Comtesse de Lalande portion took on a separate identity, with Virginie de Pichon Longueville commissioning the elegant château that still stands today, modeled on the Hôtel de Lalande in Bordeaux. The Miailhe brothers purchased the property in 1925, and it was Edouard's daughter May-Eliane de Lencquesaing who became the estate's most transformative figure, driving a celebrated quality renaissance through the 1980s and 1990s that made Pichon Comtesse one of the most sought-after names in Pauillac. In 2006, the Rouzaud family, owners of Champagne Louis Roederer, acquired a majority interest and have since invested steadily in both vineyard and cellar. Winemaker and general manager Nicolas Glumineau oversees production today, producing a grand vin from 85 hectares planted to an unusually high proportion of Merlot for Pauillac (35%), alongside Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, and Petit Verdot. That Merlot influence is central to the estate's signature: cashmere-textured, perfumed, and more sensuous than its neighbors, yet with the underlying structure and complexity to age for decades.

$390.00

$179.95

750ML

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