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Pichon Baron 2005

Pauillac, Second Growth

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Tasting Notes

The Château Pichon-Baron 2005 has a not dissimilar bouquet to the Pichon-Lalande with bright red and black fruit infused with cedar and violets, almost Margaux-like in character. The palate is medium-bodied with firm tannin: more masculine than Pichon-Lalande, you could almost say more rustic. Yet there is immense length and persistence here, real depth and vigour on the muscular finish. Yet I might just prefer the property over the road in this vintage.

Score: 94

Neal Martin, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2020-2050 01 February 2015

A deep blue/purple color is followed by classic, sweet aromas of blueberries, creme de cassis, graphite, incense, spring flowers, and toasty vanillin from new oak. With full body and beautiful ripeness, purity, and depth, this atypically precocious 2005 will benefit from 6-8 years of bottle age, and last for 25-30 years. It is dramatically superior to its across the road neighbor, Pichon Lalande.

Score: 92 - 95

Robert Parker, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2013-2037 30 April 2007

Deep healthy crimson. Mellow, mild, very sophisticated nose. Still extremely reticent and very dry and gentleman’s club-like savoury with what tastes like an exceptionally heavy charge of tannins. Oddly this is almost in the traditional Latour style just as Latour has moved on from it to add extra fruit to that slightly austere framework. A very long term proposition surely. I think my mark stands for how it tastes now, although it may well develop in the very long term into something much more alluring.

Score: 17

Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com Maturity: 2018-30 01 April 2006