2024 Les Griffons de Pichon Baron
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A clear step up in quality, the 2024 Les Griffons De Pichon Baron is darker fruited, with some classic Pauillac graphite and currant notes as well as medium-bodied richness and depth. It has ripe tannins, wonderful purity, and outstanding length. The Les Griffons is 56% Merlot, 42% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 2% Cabernet Franc, aged in 50% new oak and hitting 12.9% alcohol and 3.62 pH.
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William Kelley, Wine Advocate
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Deep garnet-purple colored. Charges out with ready-to-go notes of fresh black plums and black raspberries, giving way to hints of forest floor, rose bud tea, and graphite. The light to medium-bodied palate is racy and lightly chewy with delicate fruit flavors and a lifted finish.
The 2024 Les Griffons de Pichon Baron is the more structured of Pichon's two second wines, revealing notes of dark berries, cigar wrapper and loamy soil, followed by a medium-bodied, taut and chalky palate.
The 2024 Les Griffons de Pichon Baron is redolent of blackberry, incense, licorice, scorched earth, tobacco and dried herbs. Cabernet Sauvignon takes the leading role in this serious second wine from Pichon Baron. This is the first vintage with Cabernet Franc but no Petit Verdot. Production is down a whopping 50%.
About the producer
Pauillac’s Ch. Pichon Baron, formerly known as Ch. Pichon-Longueville Baron, is ranked as one of the 15 Second Growths from the 1855 Classification and is considered one of the "Super Seconds".