Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2016 Pichon-Longueville Baron is a blend of 85% Cabernet Sauvignon and 15% Merlot picked between 3 and 18 October at 39 hectoliters per hectare for estate (therefore the Grand Vin will be less). It is matured in 80% new oak and 20% one year old for 18 months. It has a very intense, extremely pure bouquet with blackberry, bilberry, cedar and graphite notes; it is a straight-down-the-fairway Pauillac. The palate is medium-bodied with a very tensile opening, that seam of graphite penetrating the black fruit. There is a wonderful structure here, unapologetically classic in style with just the right amount of austerity on the aristocratic finish. The aftertaste is incredibly long, lingering after two or three minutes in the mouth. This is a majestic Pichon-Baron and it may well to surpass both the 2009 or 2010.

James Suckling

The concentration and largesse of the 2016 Pichon Baron is apparent from the get-go with incredibly alluring, ripe and expansive fruit aromas in the blackberry, dark-cherry, mulberry and plum zone. Espresso and cedar, as well as a slate-like, stony mineral edge add complexity. The palate has incredible depth, drive and detail. Fine and plush tannins stretch the palate in every direction. So fresh and vivacious, this is the greatest Pichon Baron since 1989 and has a long future. Try from 2024.

Jean-Marc Quarin

Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider

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VertdeVin

The nose is elegant, beautifully powerful, beautifully aromatic, beautifully structured, racy and offers intensity. It reveals notes of blackberry, strawberry and small notes of cassis associated with touches of fleshy cherry, violet, hints of gray pepper and very discreet toasted hints, chocolate, vanilla as well as a subtle hint of tea. The palate is fruity, beautifully juicy, beautifully elegant, precise, well-built and offers a beautiful definition, tension, a beautiful structure, minerality as well as a beautiful finesse of the grain. On the palate this wine expresses notes of fleshy blackberry, fleshy raspberry and small notes of sour cherry / cherry associated with fine touches of ripe / acidulous cassis associated with fine touches of licorice, toasted, tonka bean, racy minerality / graphite as well as discreet hints of Bourbon vanilla and very discreet hints of chocolate (in the background). Tannins are elegant and structuring .