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1979 Château Pichon-Longueville-Comtesse-de-Lalande

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November 12, 2023 - $160

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RATINGS

93Wine Spectator

A surprise, showing plenty of ripe and exotic fruit for the vintage...with ripe plum and earth character. Full-bodied, with a long chocolate, berry finish.

91The Wine Advocate

...very enticing... Cooked meats, allspice a lot of cedar. Beautiful... very finely balanced and tannins are showing so much finesse... silky texture... most alluring of all the late-1970s... a lacy finish... very smooth and harmonious...

90Robert M. Parker Jr.

It offers a fragrant, cedary, roasted herb, and cassis-scented nose. Rich, with medium body, well-integrated tannin, and some acidity, this is the quintessentially elegant style of Bordeaux that is found nowhere else in the world.

REGION

France, Bordeaux, Pauillac

Pauillac is Bordeaux’s most famous appellation, thanks to the fact that it is home to three of the region’s fabled first-growth châteaux, Lafite-Rothschild, Mouton-Rothschild and Latour. Perched on the left bank of the Gironde River north of the city of Bordeaux, Pauillac is centered around the commune of Pauillac and includes about 3,000 acres of vineyards. The Bordeaux classification of 1855 named 18 classified growths, including the three above mentioned First Growths. Cabernet Sauvignon is the principal grape grown, followed by Merlot. The soil is mostly sandy gravel mixed with marl and iron. Robert M. Parker Jr. has written that “the textbook Pauillac would tend to have a rich, full-bodied texture, a distinctive bouquet of black currants, licorice and cedary scents, and excellent aging potential.”