Although the wine is beginning to dry out, it is still an excellent claret, with classic, cedary, curranty fruit, combined with herbs and spices. It exhibits a dusty, herbaceous side as it sits in the glass.
#2000 pichon lalande full
(88 Points) This wine reached full maturity early and has taken on an increasing amount of amber/orange. Wine Advocate # 105, Jun 1996ġ975 Chateau Pichon Lalande Comtesse Pauillac It may be fading more quickly than I would have thought. I have had better examples, but this wine has been fully mature for many years. The wine exhibited some vegetal, tobacco, cedary, blackcurrant scents, but on the palate the sweet fruit in the attack quickly dissipated to reveal acidity, tannin, and alcohol, as well as a tough finish. The color revealed considerable rust and amber. (88 Points) Based on this tasting, the 1970 Pichon-Lalande appears to be losing its fruit and is in decline. Last tasted, 3/88.ġ970 Chateau Pichon Lalande Comtesse Pauillac Medium bodied, with good concentration, as well as the austerity that marks the vintage, the 1966 Pichon Lalande should be drunk over the next decade. (88 Points) Now ready to drink, this moderately dark ruby-colored wine has a rich, toasty, peppery, somewhat minty bouquet, and firm, fleshy, tannic flavors. Pichon Comtesse was not considered one of the stars of the vintage so hopefully we will be pleasantly surprised here.ġ966 Chateau Pichon Lalande Comtesse Pauillac This was a classic vintage from bordeaux with the top wines of this vintage selling for stratospheric prices at auction today. We have a very good bottle in terms of the condition so I am crossing my fingers on this one.ġ959 Chateau Pichon Lalande Comtesse Pauillac This was considered a very good vintage in Bordeaux but a short crop so these wines are increasingly hard to come by. The fee for this tasting is $395 all-inclusive for reservations call 95.Ĭhateau Pichon Lalande Vertical Tasting at Wine Watchġ940 Chateau Pichon Lalande Comtesse Pauillac Join us as we taste through 15 vintages of this famous classified growth Bordeaux, chef Michael Saperstein will be preparing a special four course meal to accompany the tasting wines. Throughout the latter part of the 1970’s and the entire decade of the 1980’s Lalande’s wines improved steadily, with the outstanding 1982 putting this chateau over the top with a (100) point score from the world’s premier authority on wine- Robert Parker Jr. Although connoisseurs in England have always known that Pichon Lalande was making great wine at ludicrously low prices, it has been only in the past few vintages that Americans began to clamor for their share. All through the 1960's and 1970's, there was a groundswell of enthusiasm for the soft, beautiful wines of Pichon Lalande.
, the secret is out among lovers of great Bordeaux Chateau Pichon Lalande in the commune of Pauillac in the Medoc is making wines as good as its illustrious neighbors: Chateau Lafite Chateau Latour and Chateau Mouton-Rothschild.
Comments by members of the Jury judging Bordeaux wines submitted under the new 1855 classification at the 1855 World's Fair in Paris, as noted in 1855: A History of the Bordeaux Classification
More than one invalid abandoned by the doctors has been seen to drink the good old wine of Bordeaux and return to health. The Wines of Bordeaux give tone to the stomach, while leaving the mouth fresh and the head clear. This is a rich, opulent, stunning Pichon Lalande that is beginning to drink beautifully, yet should continue to improve for at least another 10-15 years and last 30 or more years.Chateau Pichon Lalande Comtesse Vertical Tasting at Wine Watch The Petit Verdot certainly gives the wine more of a tapenade, floral note, which I think can be interpreted by some as herbal. Dense purple in color, with loads of coffee, mocha, creme de cassis, and chocolate notes, this is a somewhat unusual blend of 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 34% Merlot, and a whooping 10% Petit Verdot, with a little bit of Cabernet Franc. In short, I find this to be a spectacular Pichon Lalande. I do think there is a hint of bay leaf and a meatiness to it.
Parker, Jr., Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: "Sitting next to my former colleague, Pierre Antoine Rovani, at one of the tastings, he commented that he didn’t like the striking green note in the aromatics of this wine, which I didn’t detect at all, and a subsequent bottle at another tasting did not reveal it either.
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