1959 Château Pichon Baron
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This is my second bottle of 1959 Pichon Baron and I think better than the first. Precocious red berry fruit laced with mint and juniper, cedar emerging with time, this has plenty of vigour. The palate is medium-bodied with fleshy ripe tannins, quite structured for a 1959 and perhaps a little harder in texture than its peers. Yet this is fresh with fine substance, crisp with hints of blood orange on the aftertaste. (NM)
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Robert Parker
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This is one of the finest old vintages of Pichon-Longueville I have tasted (better as well as less evolved than the 1961, and a wine I have rated between 87 and 90).
This is one of the finest old vintages of Pichon-Longueville I have tasted (better as well as less evolved than the 1961, and a wine I have rated between 87 and 90). Jan 1998, www.robertparker.com
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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".