Lot 34
CHÂTEAU PICHON LONGUEVILLE COMTESSE DE LALANDE 1989 (1) WA 93
CHÂTEAU PICHON-LONGUEVILLE BARON 1989 (2) WA 95
Lot 34 Details
CHÂTEAU PICHON LONGUEVILLE COMTESSE DE LALANDE 1989 (1)
Pauillac. 2ième Cru Classé
u. vts.
Approaching full maturity, Pichon-Lalande’s1989 has a deep ruby/plum color with some lightening at the edge. The nose offers sweet plums and creme de cassis intermixed with vanilla and graphite. The wine is lush, medium to full-bodied, and layered with texture, low acidity, sweet tannin, and the hallmark purity and elegance this estate routinely produces. Some tannins remain, but this wine has reached its plateau of maturity, where it should remain for another 10-15 years. WA 93
CHÂTEAU PICHON-LONGUEVILLE BARON 1989 (2)
Pauillac. 2ième Cru Classé
2 x scuffed labels
Both the 1989 and 1990 vintages exhibit opaque, dense purple colors that suggest massive wines of considerable extraction and richness. The dense, full-bodied 1989 is brilliantly made with huge, smoky, chocolatey, cassis aromas intermingled with scents of toasty oak. Well-layered, with a sweet inner-core of fruit, this awesomely endowed, backward, tannic, prodigious 1989 needs another 5-6 years of cellaring; it should last for three decades or more. It is unquestionably a great Pichon-Longueville-Baron. February 1997 WA 95