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1989 Chateau Pichon-Longueville Baron, Pauillac, Bottle (750ml) [WS #1 WOTY] [Slightly Soiled Label]
$385
99JS98WS97RP
Critic key
RP = Robert ParkerWS = Wine SpectatorJS = James Suckling
Product Description
JS99 "This is glossy and sophisticated, with so much graphite, ink, pencil shavings, blackberries, blackcurrants and blackberry leaves on the nose. Classy and powerful with very sleek tannins. Dark chocolate and blackcurrants. So long and deep. Drink or hold." JS Jan 2023
WS98 - Wine of the Year 1992 "Youthful and gorgeous. Hedonistic. Superyoung ruby, black color. Masses of ripe fruit. Blackberry, cassis and spices. Full-bodied and very soft, with round, caressing tannins and a deliciously fresh berry, plum aftertaste. Hard not to drink it now. Best after 2005." JS for WS 1992
RP97 "One of the wines of the vintage, the 1989 Pichon-Longueville Baron is drinking beautifully today. Bursting from the glass with aromas of ripe blackcurrants, plums, Cuban cigar, loamy soil, black truffles and burning embers, it's medium to full-bodied, rich and enveloping, with powdery tannins and a concentrated core of fruit. Fleshy and dramatic, with a sumptuous, low-acid profile and a long, expansive finish, to my palate this is the one 1989 Pauillac that, on a good day, can rival the extraordinary 1989 Lynch Bages. While I tend to think it's at its peak, every bottle I open from my cellar in Beaune seems to be better than the last." WK for TWA Feb 2022
Wine Spectator Excerpted from the Dec. 31, 1992, issue "Purity and Intensity: Wine Spectator’s 1992 Wine of the Year - Once upon a time, Pichon Baron ranked among the top second-growths, but in recent decades the château’s fortunes have slipped. Starting with the 1986 vintage, however, Pichon Baron got its act together. Not coincidentally, that was the first wine completed under the supervision of Jean-Michel Cazes. By the 1989 vintage, the château was hitting on all cylinders. Only three 1989 Bordeauxs surpass Pichon Baron, all first-growths that cost at least twice as much."
WS98 - Wine of the Year 1992 "Youthful and gorgeous. Hedonistic. Superyoung ruby, black color. Masses of ripe fruit. Blackberry, cassis and spices. Full-bodied and very soft, with round, caressing tannins and a deliciously fresh berry, plum aftertaste. Hard not to drink it now. Best after 2005." JS for WS 1992
RP97 "One of the wines of the vintage, the 1989 Pichon-Longueville Baron is drinking beautifully today. Bursting from the glass with aromas of ripe blackcurrants, plums, Cuban cigar, loamy soil, black truffles and burning embers, it's medium to full-bodied, rich and enveloping, with powdery tannins and a concentrated core of fruit. Fleshy and dramatic, with a sumptuous, low-acid profile and a long, expansive finish, to my palate this is the one 1989 Pauillac that, on a good day, can rival the extraordinary 1989 Lynch Bages. While I tend to think it's at its peak, every bottle I open from my cellar in Beaune seems to be better than the last." WK for TWA Feb 2022
Wine Spectator Excerpted from the Dec. 31, 1992, issue "Purity and Intensity: Wine Spectator’s 1992 Wine of the Year - Once upon a time, Pichon Baron ranked among the top second-growths, but in recent decades the château’s fortunes have slipped. Starting with the 1986 vintage, however, Pichon Baron got its act together. Not coincidentally, that was the first wine completed under the supervision of Jean-Michel Cazes. By the 1989 vintage, the château was hitting on all cylinders. Only three 1989 Bordeauxs surpass Pichon Baron, all first-growths that cost at least twice as much."