Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande 2017

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

Composed of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23% Merlot, 6% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot, the 2017 Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande has a medium to deep garnet-purple color and is a little closed to begin, soon revealing floral notes of lilacs and lavender over a core of black raspberries, warm blackberries and forest floor plus touches of star anise and stewed black tea. Medium-bodied, the palate is a bundle of energy and tension with softly played tannins and beautiful floral and black fruit layers, finishing with a long-lingering whisper.

James Suckling

A tight, compact young Bordeaux with medium body, polished and round tannins and a medium finish. Not a big wine, but some very classy currant and raspberry character and just a hint of lead pencil and polished structure. Drink after 2022.

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Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider

VertdeVin

The nose is elegant and offers concentration, finesse of the grain, deepness as well as complexity. It reveals notes of ripe blackberry, ripe raspberry, small notes of ripe Gariguette strawberry associated with a touch of violet, lily, small ripe fruits, gravels/terroir as well as fine hints of camphor, liquorice/liquorice stick, tea, toasted oak/vanilla, almond and nutmeg. The palate is fruity, well-balanced, racy and offers an acidulous frame, a small aerial side, a beautiful fat, roundness, a good definition, precision, racy minerality as well as a very fine tension. In the mouth this wine expresses notes of juicy blackberry, fleshy/juicy raspberry, juicy cherry and small notes of violet, lily associated with fine hints of crunchy redcurrant, toasted, toasted almond, chocolate as well as an imperceptible hint of sweet tobacco and cacao. Tannins are fine, elegant and very slightly firm. A good persistence. A very discreet chew on the finish/persistence.

Adrian van Velsen - vvWine.ch

Wine Enthusiast

This smoky wine is structured and full of dry tannins. Acidity comes with the black-currant fruits that are slow to develop but will get there. Drink this wine from a great estate from 2024.