• Year 2015
• Colour Red
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• Sub Region Pauillac
• Designation AOP
• Classification 2eme Cru Classe
• Pack Size 6x75cl
• ABV 13.5%
• Drinking Window 2025 - 2065
• Drinking Recommendation Not Ready

• 97 Wine Advocate  

  Medium to deep garnet-purple in color, the 2015 Pichon-Longueville Baron is enticingly scented of chocolate-covered cherries, crushed red currants and mulberries with touches of baking spices, potpourri and bay leaves plus a hint of fallen leaves. Sumptuously elegant, refreshing and medium-bodied with gorgeous, expressive, perfumed red fruits and very fine, very firm tannins, it has a persistent, perfumed finish. Its remarkable intensity, freshness and very firm frame suggest a long-lived Pichon Baron, which should cellar gracefully for 30+ years.

  
  

  Drinking Window: 2023 - 2048

  Reviewer Name: Lisa Perrotti-Brown

  Review Date: 21st February 2018

• 97 Vinous  

  The 2015 Pichon-Baron has an engaging, complex bouquet of blackberry, cedar, mint and graphite, demonstrating more cohesion and more conviction than its peers. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin and extremely well-judged acidity that imbues this Pauillac with a sense of effortlessness and class lacking in some of its peers. A stunning 2015 and one of the greatest releases from the estate. Tasted blind at the Southwold 2015 Bordeaux tasting.The 2015 Pichon-Baron is a step up from the 2014, boasting an intense, multifaceted bouquet of blackberry, graphite and crushed stone that gains momentum in the glass; the purity here is deeply impressive. The medium-bodied palate delivers firm tannin cloaked in layers of graphite-infused black fruit. There is a sense of abiding symmetry to this Pauillac, and there is also tremendous length, the flavors almost refusing to let go of your senses. This is an awesome Pichon-Baron in the making, up there with the 1990, 2005 and 2009. Tasted at the Pichon-Baron vertical at the château.

  
  

  Drinking Window: 2025 - 2065

  Reviewer Name: Neal Martin

  Review Date: 1st January 2019

• 95 James Suckling  

  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. Cool-fruited finish. There’s great potential here. Try this from 2023.
  

  
  

  Review Date: 2nd February 2018

• 95 Decanter  

  Brimming with confidence, it’s not as obviously delectable right now as the second wine Les Griffons, but that is as you would expect at this stage, and in fact underlines the excellent construction and potential of the first wine. It is fairly reserved, yet the layers of black fruits and tannins are all in place. 80% new oak.

  
  

  Drinking Window: 2025 - 2040

  Reviewer Name: Jane Anson

  Review Date: 14th November 2018

• 94 Wine Spectator  

  A juicy, well-knit style, with energetic plum and black currant compote notes that are studded with anise and black tea accents. Has a muscular edge through the finish, with brambly grip holding sway for now. There's more than enough fruit to put this away for a bit. Best from 2022 through 2035.

  
  

  Drinking Window: 2022 - 2035

  Review Date: 31st March 2018

Pichon Baron

Chateau Pichon-Longueville Baron had a renaissance when the AXA insurance group took over. Managing Director, Christian Seeley, calls the super second its "jewel in the crown". Emphasising selection they stunned wine enthusiasts with their 1988, now regularly challenging for best second growth.

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