Although September was particularly rainy (between 15 and 23), the weather thereafter was warm, sunny and dry until the end of the harvest, which took place between October 2 and 15.Ĭharacteristics and tasting tips for Château Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande 1986 She managed Château Pichon-Longueville Comtesse from 1978 to 2007, when the Rouzaud family, owners of the Louis Roederer Champagne House, acquired the estate.Ī major name among Pauillac wines, Château Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande oversees a vineyard located near the Gironde estuary and rests on soils made up of gravel hilltops on clay-sandy subsoils.Īpril, with its cold and rainy conditions, delayed budburst, then gave way to a hot and dry May and June. May-Eliane de Lencquesaing, daughter of Edouard Miailhe, is an emblematic figure of the Gironde wine industry. It was in 1925 that the Miailhe family, in the guise of Édouard and Louis Miailhe, acquired this property on Bordeaux’s Left Bank. The magnificent Château Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande, Pauillac Second Grand Cru Classé, shines in the Pauillac appellation. Chateau Pichon Lalande is best served at 15.5 degrees Celsius, 60 degrees Fahrenheit. Serving Chateau Pichon Lalande with Wine and Food Pairings. It does Ass it closes in on 40 years of age, the sublime 1982 Pichon Lalande is still going strong. Robert Parker 96 points Tasted 7 Times Since Bottling With Consistent Notes The 1986 is the most tannic, as well as the largest-framed Pichon-Lalande in over. A great Pauillac red wine with a delicate complexity But don't let that fool you into thinking the wine will not improve with age.
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