2020 chateau pichon baron 2eme cru classe, pauillac
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Why We're Buying
Château Pichon Longueville Baron, or simply known as Pichon Baron, is a second-growth Bordeaux wine estate. Its flagship wine of the same name comes from the oldest vines on the plot, bestowing drinkers with a sweeping sensory experience. With more than four decades of aging potential, it's easy to see why this red blend sells for triple digits.
Critics Scores
James Suckling
This young Bordeaux is totally seamless with fine, velvet-like tannins that are integrated and refined. Underlying freshness and verve. It’s full-bodied, linear and long with a compact palate.
Jeb Dunnuck
The inky hued 2020 Château Pichon-Longueville Baron checks in as a blend of 76 Cabernet Sauvignon and 24 Merlot that spent 18 months in 70 new barrels. It's a dense, rich, powerful 2020 offering loads of pure cassis and almost blue fruits as well as full-bodied richness, a round, lush, incredibly sexy texture, sweet tannins, and ample classic Pauillac lead pencil, tobacco, and violet aromas and flavors. It's unquestionably in the same ballpark as the 2015, 2016, and 2018, and given its sweet tannins and beautifully integrated acidity, it should have some up-front appeal as well, yet still age at a glacier pace.
Vinous
The 2020 Pichon Baron is utterly breathtaking, and also one of the very best young vintages I have tasted here. An exotic mélange of red cherry, mint, rose petal and blood orange comes alive in the glass. More than anything, though, the Pichon-Baron possesses remarkable energy and vibrancy that builds to an intense, beautifully focused finish. This is hands down one of the most impressive wines of 2020.
Decanter
Intense, concentrated, rippling with power while still delivering finesse. A muscular Pichon Baron, layered with liquorice and chocolate shavings. Unmistakably Pauillac, and hugely Cabernet dominant, with savoury spice notes of grilled cumin and the same muscular, saline-backed tannins that you find in Les Griffons, just here with more definition and depth.
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2020 Pichon-Longueville Baron is a blend of 76 Cabernet Sauvignon and 24 Merlot aging for an estimated 18 months in French oak barrels, 70 new. The production of the grand vin represents 48 of the harvest this year. Opaque purple-black in color, it comes bounding out of the glass with exuberant notions of blackberry pie, preserved plums and crème de cassis, plus suggestions of Chinese five spice, chocolate mint, graphite and cedar chest with a touch of violets. The medium-bodied palate is built like a brick house, featuring firm, ripe, grainy tannins and bold freshness to support the taut, muscular black fruits, finishing long and spicy.