1/10/2024 0 Comments Pichon wine![]() If you want to know whether this 2015 is up there with the 2009 or 2010, the answer is unquestionably yes. For a skin-contact wine that packs a serious punch, check out Anne Pichon’s Sauvage. Our Grand Vin Château Pichon Baron, classified as a 2nd Grand Cru Classé in 1855, is made with grapes from the oldest vines on the estate’s historic plots.This quintessential Pauillac offers an intense and profound sensory experience of great complexity.Château Pichon Baron exhibits elegance, intensity and exceptional length on the palate. Possibly the most sensual Pichon Baron that I have tasted at this nascent juncture, it gently unfolds in the mouth and leaves with an enormously persistent finish that leaves the senses tingling. This is disarmingly and utterly harmonious with a startling mineral core. The palate is medium-bodied with very fine tannin. The grapes which make up this wines blend come primarily from gravelly plots of land near to the Gironde estuary, a good environment for Cabernet Sauvignon. It has a very pure bouquet with lifted blackcurrant, blueberry and graphite aromas, beautifully delineated, the oak seamlessly embroidered with the fruit. Apparently Christian Seely made use of four additional 80-hectolitre wooden vats that augmented his stainless steel vessels. WA96-98: "The 2015 Pichon Baron is a blend of 77% Cabernet Sauvignon and 23% Merlot picked between 18 September until 9 October. There’s great potential here." - James Suckling JS95: "This is a muscular edition with attractive, deeply ripe blackberries and plums set amid firm and assertively linear tannins that hold the finish long and on point. This is certainly within first growth quality." - Neal Martin The palate is medium-bodied with svelte tannin, great depth and cohesion, gently gripping the mouth although not as tannic or as masculine as I was anticipating, exhibiting great finesse on the finish. It possesses and extraordinarily pure but intense bouquet with blackberry, bilberry, crushed stone and graphite that seem to gain intensity with aeration. 2017 Chateau Pichon-Longueville au Baron de Pichon-Longueville, Pauillac, France Our Grand Vin Chteau Pichon Baron 2nd Cru Class in 1855 comes from the. NM97: "The 2015 Pichon-Longueville Baron was a superlative wine from barrel and I have no reason to change that view now that it is in bottle. ![]() This is quite simply a brilliant showing from the 2015." - Antonio Galloni ![]() In 2015, Pichon Baron is endowed with spectacular balance and class. A melange of dark red/purplish fruit, lavender, mint, spice and rose petal builds as this towering, dramatic Pauillac shows off its allure. Nuanced and poised, with seemingly endless layers of nuance, the 2015 is super-impressive. The 2015 is dense, plush and totally voluptuous as it sweeps across the palate to make its presence known. White wines are made from only a light pressing of first run juice and vinified in stainless steel tanks with strict temperature control to maintain a balance of ripe fruit and freshness.AG97: "A dramatic, sweeping wine, the Pichon-Longueville Baron is even better from bottle than it was from barrel. The malolactic fermentation and ageing take place partly in oak barrels but mostly in cements tanks. The fermentations extend 3 to 4 weeks with a slow progressive increase in temperature to extract a very fine tannin structure. Reds are vinified in small 50 HL cement tanks or stainless steel, at low temperature to achieve a long maceration and two gentle pump overs daily, with additional manual punch downs if necessary. Vintry Fine Wines is bringing fine wine to New York Citys revitalized downtown with over 2,500 selections focusing on both collectibles and drinkables. Employing careful vineyard management, low yields and late harvesting, Pichon hand-harvests and destems all of the fruit. And because of the Mistral that sweeps up from the hills below, fruit is less susceptible to rot and disease, providing and ideal environment for organic viticulture. The micro-climate Anne Pichon’s vineyard is dry, with cool, manually tilled soils that retain moisture when it rains. The wines themselves are named “Sauvage” inspired by the Pichons’ respect for and attachment to nature. Edward along with her sister-in-law Véronique who manages the commercial affairs. Today, Anne produces no more than 40 barrels of wine for T. The began to resurrect the a defunct domaine called Murmurium, meaning “the buzzing song of bees.” And while the 15 hectare vineyard was in poor shape, the site was properly organic for many years leading up to Anne and Marc’s stewardship. ![]() Anne Pichon and her late husband, Marc Pichon, started an agrarian-bohemian life together in the 1990’s when they moved into an abandoned farm house at the base of Mont Ventoux.
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