4/5

fruit

5/5

body

3/5

acidity

5/5

tannin

0/5

sweetness

Pichon Baron

2012 {(currentVariant.size?' | ':'')} {( currentVariant.size )}

Various vintages

Black fruit / Blackcurrant leaf / Graphite / Mint / Oaky

Pauillac, Medoc, Bordeaux, France

Red

Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot

Drink Now/Cellar

2nd Growth

VN 94

Chateau Pichon Baron 2012 offers an intense, almost opaque garnet colour. There is a great aromatic presence of fresh red fruit, Morello cherry and blackcurrant, with light notes of menthol. The attack is juicy, full, creamy and elegant with a very oticeable bouquet of fruit. It continues with fleshy, weighty, lively and refreshing tannins. The precise, delicate finish heralds a bright future. This wine can be enjoyed in its fruit-driven youth, but will express itself fully when it reaches the height of its great ageing potential.

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meat:
Beef, Game, Sausages

cheese:
Blue cheese, Goat cheese

Reviewer: Antonio Galloni

The 2012 Pichon-Longueville Baron is wonderfully aromatic and textured in the glass. Scents of smoke, pipe tobacco and cedar meld into a core of intense dark fruit. Pliant and supple, but with considerable underlying structure, the 2012 is likely to drink well for the next two to three decades, perhaps longer, but it is also going to need at least a few years in bottle for the tannins to soften.

4/5