CHATEAU PICHON LONGUEVILLE 2003 FULL

Distinctly feminine and fleshy with a certain deftness, developing further notes of soy with overtones of green pepper, finishing with lasting intensity and persistent afterglow.

CHATEAU PICHON LONGUEVILLE 2003 FULL

Surprisingly full and open with lovely suppleness. Quite effusive and open on the nose, featuring capsicum with some dark cherries. Still quite primal.ġ997 Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande, courtesy of Marc. Excellent presence, intensity of fruit and linearity, finishing well with a touch of green. Lovely floral bloom and fragrance tinted with a hint of soy, snuff and haw on the nose. Very fine presence and elegance, displaying excellent depth and transparency with a faint minerally glow amidst overtones of tropical fruit, becoming more minerally over time.Ģ008 Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande. Exudes a perfumed floral fragrance, distinctively feminine, textured with lovely depth. Very fine.Ģ015 Domaine de L’Arlot Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Clos de L’Arlot, courtesy of Russ. Highly aromatic with a sappy quality, layered with fine depth. Light greenish hue, proffering tangerines and citrus on the nose with fair complexity on the palate, slightly forward in characters of aged nectarine and incense. Excellent.Ģ004 Vintage Tunina (courtesy of Stephen). Exuded more floral bloom on the nose after some time, developing a brighter minerally tone at the same time. Distinctly lighter on the palate with a deep streak of white fruits, showing good density of fruit with some minerally glow. Dry with fine acidity and tension, finishing with a faint white floral bloom.Ģ006 Le Sillage de Malartic (courtesy of Stephen).

Good crisp fullness with traces of dry toast at the sides. Gentle notes of cream, icing and green melons. My thanks to everyone for their generosity.Ģ007 Champagne Henriot Millésime, poured from magnum. Nevertheless, in spite of having been blinded, it was almost always possible to correctly identify a Baron from a Lalande, the former more masculine, structured and denser while the latter was consistently softer with a vegetal touch from its petit verdot. And, incredibly, there was another Barton on the table as well.

In spite of advanced planning, though, it turned out when the line-up unfolded that evening that we had only two vintages – 19 – that fit the plan, for a proposed pairing of 2000 failed to materialise when a Léoville Barton (!) was brought instead of a Baron. In fact, I remembered during a visit to Pichon Lalande in 2008 that a small plot of vines within the estate right in front of its office actually belonged to neighbouring Latour! An intriguing theme, therefore, would be a comparison of these estates side-by-side vintage-for-vintage, and we hit upon Baron versus Lalande across the road at a dinner of the Jürade de Saint-Emilion du Singapour on 31 October 2019 held at the private dining of Karl and Eugenia at Kheam Hock. The greater wonder is the fact that the grand vin of each of these estates is still able to exert its own unique identity even though they share virtually the same microclimate. To see such great estates within such close proximity to one another really sets the pulse racing. One of the most wonderful sights when heading up north on the D2 highway in Bordeaux must be the view from the gentle hilltop just after passing the lion’s gate of Château Léoville Las-Cases, where its vines merge seamlessly with those of Château Latour on the right, followed by the sight of Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande yonder while its “sibling” Château Pichon Longueville Baron lies directly opposite across the road.

Chateau pichon longueville 2003