Pichon-Longueville Baron 2019

Deep, dark, virtually opaque ruby-red color. The fruit on the nose is dense like sweet licorice. The palate has good fresh acidity that lifts lovely concentrated cassis & blackcurrant fruit. Notes of concentrated bitter licorice fruit become evident by the finish. The alcohol adds warmth & roundness to the mid-palate The finish is long & structured." - The wine is incredibly concentrated and will need plenty of time to open, 10/23 DCAMW

Wine Advocate

The 2019 Pichon-Longueville Baron will go down as one of this château's great wines of the modern era, along with 2016, 2010 and 1989. Unfurling in the glass with aromas of cassis and plums mingled with notions of cigar wrapper, sweet loamy soil and violets, it's full-bodied, velvety and layered, with superb concentration, lively acids and rich, powdery tannins. Perfumed and resonant, this is a profound young Pauillac that bears more of a resemblance to its neighbor Château Latour than to Pichon Lalande this year. Pichon Baron was one of the great deals of the en primeur campaign, and readers who purchased futures are to be congratulated on their foresight. (WK, 4/2022)