2003 Château Pichon Longueville Comtésse de Lalande
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At its peak, or just a hair past, this fully, ready-to-go, no decanted needed or wanted. Just pop and pour so you can enjoy its blackberry, mint, forest leaf, cedar, spice, and burning campfire aromas. The round palate is soft, sweet, blackberries, with dried herbs, and spice. It’s shorter than it used to be, but still nice in your glass. Drink from 2026-2033.
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Robert Parker
Jancis Robinson MW
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The 2003 Pichon-Lalande was showing well until around five years ago, but I wonder, based on this ex-cellar bottle, tasted blind at the château, if it is on a slippery slope? Glossy on the nose, obviously very ripe with a little more VA than previous examples. I just find it monotonous compared to the wondrous 1983 served alongside. The palate is sweet on the entry, with plenty of almost saccharine black cherries and cassis fruit, though here I remark on a nagging vegetal note right on the finish. Tasted blind at the château.
The 2003 Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande was showing well until around five years ago, but I wonder, based on this ex-cellar bottle, tasted blind at the château, if it is on a slippery slope? Glossy on the nose, obviously very ripe with a little more VA than previous examples, I just find it monotonous compared to the wondrous 1983 served alongside. The palate is sweet on the entry, with plenty of almost saccharine black cherries and cassis fruit, though here I remark on a nagging vegetal note right on the finish. Tasted blind at the château.