Château PICHON COMTESSE DE LALANDE 2022 magnum 150 cl

Description

Yves Beck 98-100 points www.yvesbeck.wine
L’intensité du bouquet est une chose, la complexité un autre et la pertinence encore une autre. Et chacun de ses critères est plussoyé par le bouquet. Que de grandeur et de précision. Le vin est d’une excellente densité et parfaitement soutenu par des tannins compacts, puissants qui se révèlent le long du palais pour atteindre leur amplitude en fin de bouche. L’acidité, structurante, ne manque pas de conférer de la tension et de la persistance. C’est certainement un des très grands Pichon Comtesse…. Avec le 2020 et le 2010 ! Puis le 1982… etc. etc.  2029-2057

Georgina Hindle 98 points  www.decanter.com
One of my favourite wines from 2022, utterly seductive from the first sip, this is a stunning effort that shows the power of Pauillac in 2022 delivered with elegance and class. Heavily scented on the nose, full of dark fruits, savoury notes of salty chocolate and floral scents. Smooth and so appealing in the mouth, the texture stands out, deep and rich but soft and chalky, tannins have a subtle powderiness that spreads the mouth, cooling and refreshing giving the minerality while the cool black and blue fruits linger in layers expanding vertically. This is so refined and polished – it’s serious no doubt, not super fun, but it doesn’t need to be, it’s rich and sumptuous with sweet blue fruits balanced by high acidity that keeps the focus and energy. Bright, bold, well worked, clean, crystalline and pure. Somehow delicate and punchy at the same time. A mind-blowing wine that you just have to marvel at with intensity, brightness and vibrancy, building as it goes. A long, clean finish leaves you wanting more, salivating for that next sip. 3.8pH. A potential 100-point wine. 3.8pH. 50% grand vin. Tasted twice.

William Kelley 97-99 points www.erobertparker.com
The 2022 Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande is one wine where a comparison with this estate’s magical 1982 doesn’t appear to be far-fetched. Wafting from the glass with deep aromas of cassis, plums, violets, rose petals, tobacco leaf and pencil shavings, it’s full-bodied, supple and fleshy, with a layered, seamless core of fruit that largely conceals its chassis of powdery structuring tannin. Concluding with a long, expansive and beautifully perfumed finish, it’s a blend of 78% Cabernet Sauvignon, 17% Merlot and 5% Cabernet Franc that has the potential to equal or even surpass the 2019 and 2016 vintages at this address. It checks in at a very classical 13.6% alcohol and a rather high pH of 3.80.

Jean-Marc Quarin 98 points www.quarin.com
Couleur noire. Nez intense, fin, fruité, pur, suave et complexe. Il devient plus floral et plus subtil à l’agitation. Minutieux en entrée de bouche, riche en arômes au milieu, avec des nuances franches de fruits noirs et de l’éclat dans la saveur, le vin fond, puissant, juteux, noble et savoureux. Il s’achève profond, complexe et long sur un grain fin. Assemblage : 78 % cabernet sauvignon, 17 % merlot, 5 % cabernet franc. Degré d’alcool : 13°65 – pH : 3,8. Rendement : 30 hl/ha.

Neal Martin 96-98 www.vinous.com
The 2022 Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande was picked 6 to 27 September at 30hL/ha, the drought chipping away so that one-third was eventually lost. This has 13.65% alcohol and pH of 3.80. There is 17.5% pressed wine, the highest ever. This has a subtle bouquet, not understated but it unfurls in the glass (unlike others that explode.) Blackberry and cedar, light touches of mint, a hint of dark chocolate. The palate is medium-bodied with a velvety texture with lovely balanced, gentle but insistent grip, slightly granular as it fans out with black fruit, cedar and light graphite notes. This is a very suave Pichon-Lalande that will age with style.

Antonio Galloni 96-99 www.vinous.com
The 2022 Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande is magnificent. In recent years, Estate Director Nicolas Glumineau has pushed Pichon Comtesse to the limit. Maybe even a bit too far. But the 2022 is in the end a super-classic wine that emphasizes mid-weight structure, aromatic presence and persistence more than size. Sweet floral, savory and mineral accents run through a core of ripe, racy red-toned fruit. All the elements are so well balanced. Tasted four times.