Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande is a highly regarded wine estate in the Pauillac appellation and one of the most important second growths in Pauillac. Pichon-Lalande also borders the first growth Château Latour at the southern end of the Pauillac appellation, which explains the quality of the terroir. Originally, Comtesse de Lalande was part of a larger estate, officially known as Château Pichon Longueville, which was divided between the children Raoul and Virginie and split into two estates.
2017 is rather a challenging vintage in Bordeaux, but the chateau nevertheless shows its class and always manages to deliver consistently high quality.
The wine shows a lot of red fruit, oaky notes, leather and graphite, the profile shows that the wine is already well developed and is not made for very long bottle ageing, which was actually to be expected from a 2017 vintage.
Nevertheless, nicely balanced with a certain power and length, notes of leather and graphite are very typical for a mature Pauillac, which leads me to the conclusion that the wine is at the beginning of its full maturity and is already nice to drink now. Of course, a wine like this can still mature for several years, but it will soon be at its peak.
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