Château Pichon-Longueville-Baron - Pauillac 2020 (750ml)
Price: $205.00
# 8 Wine Spectator Top 100 of 2023
| Producer | Château Pichon-Longueville-Baron |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | Pauillac |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
| Vintage | 2020 |
| Sku | 1005755 |
| Size | 750ml |
James Suckling: 97-98 Points
This young Bordeaux is totally seamless with fine velvet-like tannins that are integrated and refined. Underlying freshness and verve. It?s full-bodied linear and long with a compact palate.
Jeb Dunnuck: 98+ Points
The flagship 2020 Château Pichon-Longueville Baron is pure gold a full-bodied rich powerful 2020 displaying the vintage's purity focus and structure front and center. A blend of 76% Cabernet Sauvignon and 24% Merlot its dense purple hue is followed by a mammoth-sized bouquet of cassis blackberries smoked earth graphite and cedar pencil. With ripe tannins a seamless layered mouthfeel and one heck of a finish it comes closest in my mind to the estate 2010 and I think is clearly in the same realm as the 1989 1990 2000 2009 2010 2015 and 2019. It offers pleasure today but it certainly warrants 7-8 years a decade if possible of bottle age and will have 40-50 years of overall longevity.
Decanter: 98 Points
Vinous: 98 Points
The 2020 Pichon Baron is every bit as magnificent as it was en primeur. A wine of vertical intensity and explosive power the 2020 offers up an exotic mix of dark red/black fruit espresso licorice menthol gravel and dried herbs. This potent driving Pauillac needs time to come together. It marries the fruit intensity of a warm year with the driving energy of a cool year. The 2020 is a gorgeous Pichon Baron. - By Antonio Galloni on December 2022
Vinous Media: 98 Points
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Wine Spectator: 97 Points
This has a very large-scaled yet properly proportioned core of cassis plum and blackberry fruit flavors that are remarkably pure and focused. Buried deep within is a sleek vibrant iron spine that drives the finish as the fruit keeps pace. Extra savory tobacco and cedar nuances fill out all the remaining available space. A towering wine with a buttoned-up feel. Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. Best from 2030 through 2045. 12404 cases made.
Wine Advocate: 97 Points
The brilliant 2020 Pichon-Longueville Baron offers up inviting aromas of sweet berries and cassis mingled with pipe tobacco loamy soil pencil shavings and licorice. Medium to full-bodied deep and layered its velvety attack segues into a concentrated mid-palate that's framed by rich powdery tannins concluding with a long vibrant finish. A blend of 76% Cabernet Sauvignon and 24% Merlot it's a true classic that's a touch less demonstrative out of the gates than the sensual 2019 but which in the fullness of time will prove every bit as good.
The Wine Independent: 97 Points
A blend of 76% Cabernet
Jane Anson: 96 Points
Densely structured with muscular tannins that confidently hold the cassis and blackberry fruits in check and load up on the Pauillac character. This is great quality full of liquorice gunpowder tea and grilled cocoa bean set against plump black fruits and a mouthwateringly fresh finish with eucalyptus and slate. Will be bottled in June 2020 (and go into vat a few months earlier) but will easily need 6 to 8 years in bottle to fully soften. 80% new oak 48% of overall production 30hl/h yield. Harvest September 14 to 30.
