2021, Château Pichon Baron, PAUILLAC, 2ème Grand Cru ClasséBordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot. This great 73 hectare vineyard has been producing top class Pauillac since the late 1980's when Jean Michel Cazes of Lynch Bages took control and re vitalised the property. A brilliant achievement, the 2021 Pichon Longueville Baron opens in the glass with aromas of dark berries, blackcurrants, cigar wrapper, loamy soil, pencil shavings and licorice. Medium to full bodied, deep

cigar wrapper

Plush and vibrant

black cherries

The tautly muscular and well-detailed flavours are not especially dense though they are almost painfully intense

Everything about the 2020 speaks to class and refinement

yet with light let in between the concentrated tannins and heavy black pepper spice

Despite rigorous coaxing

Creamy texture

a style with freshness and less opulence than most years

with density

with a sweet core of fruit and a chalky finish

Sichuan pepper and anise