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
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
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- Year 2015
- Colour Red
- Country France
- Region Bordeaux
- Sub Region Pauillac
- Designation
- Classification
- Pack Size 6x75cl
- ABV 13.5°
- Drinking Window 2025 - 2065
- Drinking Recommendation Not Ready
- LWIN 101416320150600750
- Reviews (2)
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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 VinousThe 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
- Producer
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Château Pichon-Longueville Baron is a 2eme Grand Cru Classé estate in Pauillac on Bordeaux’s Left Bank. The estate – and its sister Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande – was effectively created in 1850 when Baron Joseph de Pichon Longueville divided a larger property comprising both estates between his five children. Pichon Baron didn’t perform to the standard of its terroir in the 1960s and 1970s. But this all changed with its acquisition by the AXA Group and the arrival of Jean-Michel Cazes of Lynch Bages to run things properly. Huge investment and re-planting occurred and when Cazes handed over to Christian Seely in 2000 the estate was already on a march back to greatness. Seely has presided over a remarkable renaissance at Pichon Baron, and today the wines are hugely admired and collected as amongst the most rich, full bodied, spicy, concentrated, tannic and elegant of red Bordeaux. The 73 hectare vineyard consists of 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot – although the Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot are reserved exclusively for the second wine. The 40 hectares used for the Grand Vin are located on the plateau of Pauillac, which borders the vineyard of Château Pichon Lalande and overlooks the vines of Château Latour.
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