98/100
Looking at the flagship 2022 Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse De Lalande, it's based on 78% Cabernet Sauvignon, 16% Merlot, and the balance Cabernet Franc that spent 19 months in two-thirds new oak and one-third in once-used barrels. Its similarly deep purple hue is followed by a magical, heavenly 2022 that has a layered, full-bodied profile that brings an incredibly floral character as well as a huge core of darker currant fruits, ripe, polished, velvety tennis, no hard edges, and a thrilling finish. It’s a quintessential Comtesse that brings the forward, supple elegance of the château while still offering plenty of classic Pauillac depth, structure, and character.
98/100
One of my favourite wines from 2022, utterly seductive from the first sip, this is a stunning effort that shows the power of Pauillac in 2022 delivered with elegance and class. Heavily scented on the nose, full of dark fruits, savoury notes of salty chocolate and floral scents. Smooth and so appealing in the mouth, the texture stands out, deep and rich but soft and chalky, tannins have a subtle powderiness that spreads the mouth, cooling and refreshing giving the minerality while the cool black and blue fruits linger in layers expanding vertically. This is so refined and polished - it's serious no doubt, not super fun, but it doesn’t need to be, it’s rich and sumptuous with sweet blue fruits balanced by high acidity that keeps the focus and energy. Bright, bold, well worked, clean, crystalline and pure. Somehow delicate and punchy at the same time. A mind-blowing wine that you just have to marvel at with intensity, brightness and vibrancy, building as it goes. A long, clean finish leaves you wanting more, salivating for that next sip.
Robert Parker
100/100
The 2022 Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande has turned out even better in bottle than I anticipated, bursting from the glass with aromas of cassis and blackberries mingled with scents of licorice, violets and pencil shavings. Full-bodied, layered and enveloping, it's suave, seamless and complete, with faultless precision, pristine integration of tannin, controlled sweetness and a long, expansive finish. The 2022 manages to unite the sensuality that's the estate's calling card and the ripeness of the vintage on the one hand, with a sense of Pauillac classicism on the other, threading the needle to deliver one of the finest wines of the vintage and a benchmark Pichon Comtesse.
98/100
Looking at the flagship 2022 Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse De Lalande, it's based on 78% Cabernet Sauvignon, 16% Merlot, and the balance Cabernet Franc that spent 19 months in two-thirds new oak and one-third in once-used barrels. Its similarly deep purple hue is followed by a magical, heavenly 2022 that has a layered, full-bodied profile that brings an incredibly floral character as well as a huge core of darker currant fruits, ripe, polished, velvety tennis, no hard edges, and a thrilling finish. It’s a quintessential Comtesse that brings the forward, supple elegance of the château while still offering plenty of classic Pauillac depth, structure, and character.
98/100
One of my favourite wines from 2022, utterly seductive from the first sip, this is a stunning effort that shows the power of Pauillac in 2022 delivered with elegance and class. Heavily scented on the nose, full of dark fruits, savoury notes of salty chocolate and floral scents. Smooth and so appealing in the mouth, the texture stands out, deep and rich but soft and chalky, tannins have a subtle powderiness that spreads the mouth, cooling and refreshing giving the minerality while the cool black and blue fruits linger in layers expanding vertically. This is so refined and polished - it's serious no doubt, not super fun, but it doesn’t need to be, it’s rich and sumptuous with sweet blue fruits balanced by high acidity that keeps the focus and energy. Bright, bold, well worked, clean, crystalline and pure. Somehow delicate and punchy at the same time. A mind-blowing wine that you just have to marvel at with intensity, brightness and vibrancy, building as it goes. A long, clean finish leaves you wanting more, salivating for that next sip.
Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande
Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande er en ikonisk 2. Cru Classé fra Pauillac, Bordeaux, berømt for sine elegante og sofistikerede vine. Med vinmarker domineret af Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot og Petit Verdot skaber slottet komplekse, velafbalancerede vine med finesse og silkebløde tanniner. Vinene udvikler sig smukt over tid og er kendt for dybe frugtnoter, krydderi og en præcis syrestruktur; et sandt symbol på Pauillacs elegance.
Bordeaux
Vin fra Bordeaux spænder over et overvældende udvalg af smagsoplevelser og stilarter. Bordeaux, denne bemærkelsesværdige vinregion, ligger smukt ved Atlanterhavet i det vestlige Frankrig. Det er her, i Bordeaux, at vinproduktionen er mest omfattende i hele Frankrig, og de mere end 120.000 hektar vinmarker fortæller historien om Bordeauxs indflydelse på verdens vinverden. Herfra produceres de fleste varianter af vin - lige fra tør mousserende Cremant, milde rødvine, friske hvidvine, intense kraftfulde rødvine og søde dessertvine.
Med en årlig produktion på mere end 700 millioner flasker vin er Bordeaux-regionen en sand vinmagt. Og det er ikke kun kvantitet, men også kvalitet, der præger Bordeaux. Her findes ikke færre end 54 forskellige appellationer, hvoraf nogle er verdensberømte, mens andre er skjulte perler, der venter på at blive opdaget.
Druerne, som er hjertet og sjælen i Bordeaux-vine, er primært Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon og Cabernet Franc, suppleret med små mængder Petit Verdot, Carmenere og Malbec. Disse druesorter giver Bordeaux-vine deres karakteristiske smag og stil. Venstre bred af Gironde-floden er hjemsted for Cabernet Sauvignon-dominerede vine, som er kendt for deres struktur og styrke. På højre side af floden, hvor Merlot regerer, finder man bløde og fyldige vine med en umiddelbar charme.
Én af de mest berømte Bordeaux-appellationer er Médoc, der producerer de ikoniske Bordeaux-vine, der bærer navne som Château Margaux, Château Latour og Château Lafite Rothschild. Disse vine er skattede af samlere og kendere for deres evne til at ældes i årtier og udvikle komplekse smagsnuancer.
På højre bred af Gironde-floden finder man Saint-Émilion og Pomerol, der er kendt for deres Merlot-dominerede vine. Château Cheval Blanc og Château Pétrus er to af de mest eftertragtede ejendomme i Bordeaux, der producerer sublimt raffinerede vine.
Så uanset om du er en inkarneret vinentusiast eller blot nyder et godt glas vin fra Bordeaux fra tid til anden, er Bordeaux-regionen en ubestridelig destination. Den lange historie, de forskelligartede landskaber og det uendelige udvalg af vinoplevelser gør Bordeaux til et sted, der aldrig mister sin magi. Så næste gang du åbner en flaske vin fra Bordeaux, lad dig fordybe i denne regionale skat, der er skabt af passion, tradition og ekspertise. Bordeaux-vin er en verden i sig selv, og den er skabt til at nyde igen og igen.
