Lot 187
CHÂTEAU PICHON BARON 1989 (3) 95 WA
Lot 187 Details
CHÂTEAU PICHON BARON 1989
Pauillac. 2ième Cru Classé
2 x soiled strip labels
Both the 1989 and 1990 vintages exhibit opaque, dense purple colors that suggest massive wines of considerable extraction and richness. The dense, full-bodied 1989 is brilliantly made with huge, smoky, chocolatey, cassis aromas intermingled with scents of toasty oak. Well-layered, with a sweet inner-core of fruit, this awesomely endowed, backward, tannic, prodigious 1989 needs another 5-6 years of cellaring; it should last for three decades or more. It is unquestionably a great Pichon-Longueville-Baron. February 1997 WA 95