Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande 2024 en Primeur

This wine offers pure, sophisticated aromatics of blueberries, blackcurrants, peony, and iris, with crayon and inky notes. Smooth and silky, it delivers great energy and intensity, balancing delicate chew, fleshiness, and fine, muscular tannins. Structured yet tight, it reveals iodine, salty graphite, cool blue fruit, mint, and cola. The texture grows on the second taste, gaining mass and flesh, with juicy sweetness on the mid-palate, evolving into a chewy finish. Tobacco, clove, liquorice, dark chocolate, and cedar add complexity. Mouthwatering acidity and precise balance showcase Nicolas Glumineau's skill, creating a svelte, energetic wine with a lot going on. 16% press. 50% production. 65% new oak. 3.7pH. (Georgina Hindle)

Harmonieux, profond, doté de tannins nobles, un rien strict aujourd’hui mais promis à un grand avenir.

The length and linear nature of this wine make it outstanding. Medium-bodied with polished and refined tannins that caress the palate. Extremely well done. The length and finesse are impressive.

The Grand Vin from this reference point Pauillac château, the 2024 Château Pichon Longueville Comtess De Lalande checks in as 83% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14% Merlot, and 3% Cabernet Franc hitting 12.7% alcohol with a pH of 3.7 and an IPT of 70. Beautiful Cabernet Sauvignon notes of cassis, graphite, freshly sharpened pencil, and crushed stone all define the aromatics, and it hits the palate with medium-bodied richness, a concentrated, layered, wonderfully textured mouthfeel, ripe tannins, and outstanding length.

The 2024 Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande is plush, sensual and inviting. Succulent dark-toned fruit, sweet spice, new leather, mocha, chocolate and lavender build nicely. Here, too, the tannins are so polished, so refined. The 2024 is an especially elegant Pichon-Comtesse. It’s also very clearly one of the wines of the vintage. Bravo. Tasted four times. (Antonio Galloni)

La grande classe ! le vin est étincelant et précis, dans la veine des derniers millésimes, servi par des cabernets qui fournissent la colonne vertébrale. Cette colonne est enrobée par une chair finement moelleuse. Très grande allonge avec une pointe mentholée. (Olivier Poels)

Some spicy oak to scent with wafts of smoke and char. Tight blue fruit underneath. It seems that the second wine has really done its job here of concentrating the Grand Vin and resulting in a wine which displays both its Pauillac terroir and its Comtesse heritage. There is no greenness here, but a fresh thyme and rosemary complexity with graphite and mineral-edged black fruit. This will need plenty of time to evolve and develop, but it will surely become one of those 'Unbelievable '24s' in years to come.

Dark ruby, opaque core, purple reflections, delicate edge brightening. Nuances of cassis, cherry and sea buckthorn, fine wood savouriness, some vanilla and liquorice, inviting bouquet. Juicy red cherry, currants, finesse-rich acid structure, appears light-footed and lean, offers great drinking animosity, mineral-salty and well adhering, sure maturity certain ageing potential, delicate style. (Peter Moser)

The 2024 Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande offers up attractive aromas of cassis, burning embers, tobacco leaf and fresh mint, followed by a medium to full-bodied, ample and polished palate that's seamless and suave, concluding with a moderately persistent finish. A blend of 83% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14% Merlot and 3% Cabernet Franc that attained 12.7% alcohol, it's a charming effort that will offer a broad drinking window. (William Kelley)