This Grand Cru Classe Pauillac from Chateau Pichon-Longueville Comtesse from the beautiful year 2020 is a beauty with a lot of (storage) potential. The winery was taken over in 2007 by champagne winery Louis Roederer. The 2020 vintage is a blend of 77% Cabernet Sauvignon, 17% Merlot and 6% Cabernet Franc. In the glass, the Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse has an intense dark red-purple colour. The nose starts wobbly in its youth, but with some waltzes, this Pauillac unleashes with well-defined, wonderfully clean notes of ripe black currants, culminating in a whole pallet of red currant jelly, kirsch, ripe blackberries and tar, with emerging suggestions of dark chocolate, leather, cardamom, ground cloves and violets, with a hint of black truffles. Medium-bodied, with numerous fantastically nuanced black fruit layers, it has a strong base of fine-grained tannins, good acidity and a long and mineral finish.
