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- 99 pts James Suckling99 pts JS
- 98+ pts Jeb Dunnuck98+ pts Jeb Dunnuck
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- 98 pts Wine Enthusiast98 pts WE
- 97 pts Wine Spectator97 pts WS
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2020 Chateau Pichon Longueville Baron Pauillac 750 ml
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“Clearly One of Contemporary Bordeaux's Greatest Wines”
In the world of powerful, dark-fruited Cabernet, there are few better wines than Pauillac’s Château Pichon Longueville Baron. The estate borders Château Latour and offers the intensity, ageworthiness, and complexity that have made this corner of Bordeaux famous
The 99-point 2020, one of Wine Spectator’s Top 10 wines of the year, is one of the greatest bottles in the estate’s history.
The warm 2020 vintage imbued this Super Second-Growth Pauillac with an extra layer of opulence. It boasts powerful fruit layered on top of a classically built structure—Vinous declared it “magnificent…It marries the fruit intensity of a warm year with the driving energy of a cool year.” Jeb Dunnuck declared it “pure gold” and praised its “mammoth-sized bouquet,” and James Suckling thinks “This could be the new 1990 or better.”
On the nose, you’re rewarded with deep cassis and blackberry fruit accented by exotic spices, cigar box, graphite, and crushed stones. There’s a powerful intensity to the wine, and it demands—and seizes—your attention on the palate. With wave after wave of dark fruit, spice, toast, vanilla, and cacao all wrapped in super-fine firm tannins, it rewards as much attention as you can give it, revealing endless layers of complexity, more of which will continue to emerge with time.
Made from 76% Cabernet Sauvignon and 24% Merlot, the 2020 was aged in 70% new French oak. Wine Enthusiast, in addition to bestowing the 98-point score, honored the ‘20 as a Cellar Selection—a fitting recognition for a wine that deserves a starring role in any collection.