Like so many wines in this vintage, the 2016 delivers serious flavor intensity, but with no excess weight. Smoke, gravel, chocolate, graphite, licorice, leather, black cherry and grilled herbs open up first as the wine shows off its extraordinary aromatic palette. In fact, the 2016 is one of the best recent Pichon-Barons I can remember tasting. The 2016 Pichon-Longueville Baron is fabulous. The Grand Vin represents only 45% of the harvest, which took place between October 3 and October 18. The finish, with opulently textured boysenberry, tobacco, dark chocolate, cigar and plum, lasts for a full minute or more! Blended from 85% Cabernet Sauvignon and 15% Merlot, this wine reached 13.3% alcohol with a pH of 3.8. The tannins are there but they are so ripe and there is such a wealth of fruit, you just do not notice it. This is one of those wines that coats your palate with precision, fruit and flavor. There is a force of flavor and meticulousness that has not been produced in previous vintages. But it’s also a wine of finesse, freshness and purity. Rich, concentrated, multi-layered and multi-faceted, this is a powerful attention grabber. THE WINE CELLAR INSIDER (JEFF LEVE) : 98-100 / 100Īstounding color, it’s impossible to see though the wine in the glass. This is a majestic Pichon-Baron and it may well to surpass both the 2009 or 2010 The aftertaste is incredibly long, lingering after two or three minutes in the mouth. There is a wonderful structure here, unapologetically classic in style with just the right amount of austerity on the aristocratic finish. The palate is medium-bodied with a very tensile opening, that seam of graphite penetrating the black fruit. It has a very intense, extremely pure bouquet with blackberry, bilberry, cedar and graphite notes it is a straight-down-the-fairway Pauillac. It is matured in 80% new oak and 20% one year old for 18 months. The 2016 Pichon-Longueville Baron is a blend of 85% Cabernet Sauvignon and 15% Merlot picked between 3 and 18 October at 39 hectoliters per hectare for estate (therefore the Grand Vin will be less). WINE ADVOCATE (NEAL MARTIN) : 96-98 / 100 Le plus fort pourcentage récent de cabernet sauvignon (plus de 80 %). Robe noire, corps ample, dense, tendu, rappelant avec peut-être plus de pureté encore 2010, notes de violette et onctuosité de très grand millésime. Bouche ample, gourmande, fins tannins très élégants, pointe graphite, très long.īETTANE & DESSEAUVE ( BETTANE & DESSEAUVE) : 97-98 / 100 LE FIGARO - L'AVIS DU VIN (CLUB VIN) : 19 / 20 Aus den alten Rebstöcken des Cabernet Sauvignon gekeltert! Könnte auch ein 2000er sein mit mehr Frische! Es war wie 2003 eine langsame Reife der Trauben, aber zum Glück ohne die Hitze. Jahrgang) mit mehr Präzision und klarerer Frucht. Jean- René Matignon sieht Parallelen zum Jahrgang 2010, aber mit weniger Alkohol, hat die Rasse wie beim Jahrgang 1986 (übrigens sein 1. Eine konzentrierte Ansammlung von schwarzer Frucht mit viel Holunder und Schlehensaft – da ist Munition drin, mit einem langen, lauten Finale endend. Am kräftigen Gaumen mit engmaschigem Tanningerüst, ein Powerpack mit massivem, reifem Tannin. Komplexes, blaubeeriges Bouquet mit Brombeeren und Lakritze, dahinter Veilchen und erkalteter Früchtetee. Dichtes Purpur mit satter Mitte und violettem Rand. 85 % Cabernet Sauvignon, 15 % Merlot, 45 % Grand Vin, 80 % neue Barriques.
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