2024 Pichon Comtesse Reserve
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Tasting Notes
A blend of 72% Cabernet Sauvignon, 24% Merlot, and 4% Cabernet Franc, the 2024 Pichon Comtesse Reserve is deep purple-hued and reveals a charming, forward style in its darker cherry, currants, smoky tobacco, and gravelly earth aromatics. It's medium-bodied and has a supple yet nicely textured, balanced mouthfeel. It's a solid second wine that will offer plenty of pleasure right out of the gate. The 2024 hit 12.7% alcohol, 3.7 pH, and 65 IPT.
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William Kelley, Wine Advocate
Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux
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Deep garnet-purple colored. Pops from the glass with cheery scents of fresh blackberries, mulberries, and black currants, leading to hints of lavender oil, pencil lead, and damp soil. The light-bodied palate is refreshing and pure with lightly chewy tannins and a savory finish.
A blend of 72% Cabernet Sauvignon, 24% Merlot and 4% Cabernet Franc, the 2024 Resèrve de la Comtesse offers up aromas of minty cassis, plums and licorice, followed by a medium-bodied, ample and velvety palate that emphasizes upfront charm.
Unusually austere on the opening for this highly consistent wine, but things builds slowly but surely, expanding through the mid palate to show chalk, crayon, cassis and cocoa bean, grilled herbs. 48% of overall production in the Pichon Comtesse Reserve, 3.7 pH. IPT 65, 50% new oak for ageing, 15% press wine.
About the producer
Ch. Pichon Comtesse is one of the stars of Pauillac, and one of the original "Super Seconds" in Bordeaux. Classed as a Deuxième Cru Classé in the 1855 Bordeaux classification, it is widely recognised that Pichon Comtesse can not only match First Growths, but occasionally outperform them.