Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande - Pauillac 2020 (750ml)
Price: $245.00
| Producer | Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | Pauillac |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
| Vintage | 2020 |
| Sku | 1005756 |
| Size | 750ml |
James Suckling: 97-98 Points
This is extremely structured but with a level of polish and refinement that highlights the excellence of the terroir. Very long and expansive on the palate showing class and beauty. Powerful yet comes across refined and curated at the end. Lovely texture.
Jeb Dunnuck: 98 Points
Decanter: 98 Points
Smooth seductive and finely textured this is both sleek and strict with a savoury crushed stone saline tang alongside tobacco tar ripe black cherries and soft floral scents; the Cabernet really makes its mark. Sexy and rich less immediately charming than the 2019 was at this point - it?s more restricted and coiled but more sophisticated elegant and refreshing - a wine you want to sit and think about while the aromas and flavours open and evolve. Lovely definition weight and texture overall. A clear stand out.
jdThe Wine Independent: 98+ Points
The 2020 Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande is made from 77% Cabernet Sauvignon 17% Merlot and 6% Cabernet Franc. Deep garnet-purple in color it needs considerable swirling to bring out fragrant scents of lilacs tilled soil rosehip tea and Sichuan pepper giving way to a core of cassis black raspberries and cedar chest with emerging iron ore and charcoal scents. The medium-bodied palate is so tightly knit with firm grainy tannins and lovely tension finishing long and minerally.
Vinous: 98 Points
The 2020 Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande has a very intense bouquet with layers of black fruit hints of seaweed/brine crushed stone and perhaps less mint than it displayed from barrel. This possesses stunning delineation like a perfect C major chord echoing around an empty cathedral. The palate is very well balanced much more classic in style than its barrel showing saline to its core with hints of brine. A Pauillac where you can really sense the Gironde estuary flowing through its veins. Nicolas Glumineau has one of his finest creations on his hands and when it grows up it will be challenging First Growths. - By Neal Martin on December 2022
Vinous Media: 98 Points
Wine Spectator: 97 Points
A wow wine packed with cassis loganberry and mulberry flavors that hint at the vintage?s warmth but this stays poised and fresh with a sleek structure built on graphite and iron. There?s violet and lilac lift in the background and a groundswell of sweet tobacco savory and singed cedar details that emerge through the finish all with a fine-grained and rather luxurious feel. Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot and Cabernet Franc. Best from 2030 through 2045.
Jane Anson: 97 Points
Stands out from the lineup as ever a stunning wine with silky smooth tannins that are fine in character but abundant offering decades of growth ahead. Finessed and juicy blackcurrant blueberry and bilberry fruit waves of tobacco heather liquorice root crushed rocks cigar box pomegranate orange peel and pencil lead. So consistent amazing. 60% new oak 30hl/ha yield Nicolas Glumineau director. An upscore from En Primeur.
Wine Advocate: 95 Points
The 2020 Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande is very demonstrative out of the gates bursting from the glass without any coaxing to exhibit aromas of sweet cassis and blueberries mingled with notions of clove violets and lilac. Medium to full-bodied velvety and polished with a seamless charming profile that exhibits no hard edges it concludes with a nicely defined spice-inflected finish. It's a superb exercise in haut couture winemaking even if to my palate the 2019 offers a deeper dive into the estate's D.N.A.
