Chateau Pichon-Longueville au Baron - de Pichon-Longueville 1989
Price: $349.99
| Producer | Chateau Pichon-Longueville au Baron |
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| Country | France |
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| Region | Medoc |
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| Subregion | Pauillac |
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| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend Red |
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| Vintage | 1989 |
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| Sku | 36232 |
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Chateau Pichon-Longueville au Baron Description
The 1989 vintage begins with very intense and beautiful color. Harmonious aromas of cuban cigar, smoke, soft spice, dark fruits. Balanced richness and fullness. An exceptional finish with harmonious flavors of fresh fruit and confits as well as notes of cocoa and licorice.
James Suckling: 99 Points
This is glossy and sophisticated, with so much graphite, ink, pencil shavings, blackberries, blackcurrants and blackberry leaves on the nose. Classy and powerful with very sleek tannins. Dark chocolate and blackcurrants. So long and deep.
Drink or hold.
Wine Advocate: 97 Points
One of the wines of the vintage, the 1989 Pichon-Longueville Baron is drinking beautifully today. Bursting from the glass with aromas of ripe blackcurrants, plums, Cuban cigar, loamy soil, black truffles and burning embers, it's medium to full-bodied, rich and enveloping, with powdery tannins and a concentrated core of fruit. Fleshy and dramatic, with a sumptuous, low-acid profile and a long, expansive finish, to my palate this is the one 1989 Pauillac that, on a good day, can rival the extraordinary 1989 Lynch Bages. While I tend to think it's at its peak, every bottle I open from my cellar in Beaune seems to be better than the last.
Wine Spectator: 95 Points
What a nose here, from crushed mulberry to tanned leather to tar. Full-bodied, with big, velvety tannins that are soft and caressing, like cashmere. This is so tight and powerful still; it seems to be holding back. Be patient, because it will open with another five or six years of bottle age. Hard to wait. So why do it?
