• Year 2015
• Colour Red
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• Sub Region Pauillac
• Designation AOC
• Classification 2eme Cru Classe
• Pack Size 6x75cl
• ABV 13.5%
• Drinking Window 2023 - 2048
• 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

• 93-96 Wine Spectator  

  Really packed, with very energetic blackberry, black currant and plum fruit, pushed by anise and sweet spice and rumbling through the broad, iron-edged finish. Shows lots of heft, but the impression is fresh, and this is built for the long haul. Impressive.

  
  
• 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.
  

  
  
• 93 Decanter  

  Rich, full and very ripe with the Baron vigour and fine tannins bringing lift and depth. A bit massive at the moment it but will firm up and show complexity with age.
  

  
  
• 18+ Jancis Robinson  

  Notably darker than most other 2015s shown at this London Union des Grands Crus tasting. First-growth intensity on the nose. Very sweet – maybe not quite the freshness of some vintages – but definitely first growth in terms of build. Great stuff! Pure pleasure. The first wine I was tempted to drink.
  

  
  

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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