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Château Pichon Longueville 'Comtesse de Lalande' (FUTURE) : $95.00

Wine Details

Vintage: 2008
Price: $95.00
Producer: Château Pichon Longueville
Region: Pauillac
Varietal: Bordeaux - Red
Container Size: 750 ML
Flavors:
  • Red Wine
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Product Description

  • This is a Bordeaux Future. It will be shipped to you when it comes in, probably in 2011. PLEASE NOTE: IMAGE IS OF A PREVIOUS VINTAGE. THIS PRODUCT IS THE 2008 VINTAGE.
  • The wine is very harmonious with preserved fruits: blackcurrant and morello cherry. Mouthfilling, with a fresh, fleshy, long finish. Balance is favoured: integrated oak, smooth and dense tannins.

Expert Ratings

Ratings   Vintage Source Flavors
Tanzer - 90-92 Details: (74% cabernet sauvignon and 26% merlot) Bright ruby-red. Very pure aromas of cassis, minerals, licorice and bitter chocolate, all lifted by a note of violet. Sweet, broad and round for the vintage, with lovely energy to the flavors of cassis, chocolate, minerals, menthol and flowers. Juicy and sophisticated wine with terrific balance and no dip in the middle. Finishes with subtle complexity and length and sweet, fine-grained tannins. A major success for the year. 2007 Tanzer bitter, cassis, chocolate, flowers, licorice, menthol, minerals, violet
Tanzer - 88-90 Details: (a blend of 58% cabernet sauvignon, 36% merlot, 4% petit verdot and 2% cabernet franc) Bright ruby-red. Lively aromas and flavors of cassis, black raspberry, leather, menthol, bitter chocolate, violet and mint. Sweet, fresh and pure, with good intensity and depth of flavor. This spreads out horizontally to coat the palate, finishing with lovely subtle persistence. Very suave, scented wine. The grand vin represents a 46% selection. (A second sample was a bit more smoky and not quite as vibrant or pristine.) 2007 Tanzer bitter, cassis, chocolate, leather, menthol, mint, raspberry, smoky, violet
Tanzer - 85-88 Details: (46% cabernet sauvignon, 41% merlot and 13% cabernet franc) Bright ruby. Cassis, blueberry and a whiff of mint on the nose. Sweet and juicy, with black raspberry, cassis and dark chocolate flavors lifted by a note of violet. A nicely round wine with fine, easygoing tannins and a lingering violet quality. 2007 Tanzer blueberry, cassis, dark chocolate, mint, raspberry, violet
Tanzer - 91-93 Details: (70% cabernet sauvignon, 28% merlot and 2% cabernet franc; 13.2% alcohol) Very good deep ruby-red color. Pure, rich aromas of cassis, minerals and dark chocolate. Suave, intensely flavored and vinous, with ripe acids giving energy to the dense currant and menthol flavors. Vibrant and firmly built but not austere. Finishes with ripe, toothcoating tannins (the IPT is a high 83) and lovely lingering sweetness. This has a sizable structure for the year, and terrific potential longevity, but does not come across as musclebound today. 2006 Tanzer cassis, currant, dark chocolate, menthol, minerals
Tanzer - 91-93 Details: Bright ruby-red. Subdued but precise aromas of cassis and licorice. Juicy, fine-grained and sophisticated if reserved today. This is actually less opulent and obvious today than the lush, smokier 2006 Reserve de la Comtesse (87-89) but wonderfully broad, sappy and chewy, not to mention dynamic. Really spreads out to coat the palate on the very long finish and leaves the taste buds vibrating. This youthfully reserved wine should be a beauty. 2006 Tanzer cassis, licorice
Tanzer - 90-92 Details: (74% cabernet sauvignon and 26% merlot) Bright ruby-red. Very pure aromas of cassis, minerals, licorice and bitter chocolate, all lifted by a note of violet. Sweet, broad and round for the vintage, with lovely energy to the flavors of cassis, chocolate, minerals, menthol and flowers. Juicy and sophisticated wine with terrific balance and no dip in the middle. Finishes with subtle complexity and length and sweet, fine-grained tannins. A major success for the year. 2007 Tanzer bitter, cassis, chocolate, flowers, licorice, menthol, minerals, violet
WineEnthusiast - 94 Details: 93-95 Barrel Sample The relatively high proportion of Merlot in this blend has given a wine that is ripe, generous in structure, while the Cabernet Sauvignon at 64% offers sweet and juicy fruit and tannins. Very pure, fresh fruit flavors. 2006 WineEnthusiast
WineEnthusiast - 93 Details: 92-94 Barrel Sample Bringing together a complex set of flavors, soft fruit, fruit tannins and layers of acidity. The core of the wine is firmly dry and tannic, the envelope soft and generous. 2006 WineEnthusiast
Tanzer - 92-95 Details: Bright ruby. Aromas of cassis, minerals and menthol suggest a powerful wine. Then rich, chewy and dense, with compelling fullness and sweetness of fruit but also lovely verve to the flavors of black cherry, mint, flowers and licorice. Finishes with outstanding palate coverage and persistence and a captivating balance of fresh acids and chewy, ripe tannins. Wait until 2013. 2005 Tanzer black cherry, cassis, flowers, licorice, menthol, minerals, mint
WineEnthusiast - 93 Details: 92-94 Barrel sample. Big black currant fruits, good balancing tannins, with herbs and a touch of mint. This wine has a whole panoply of flavors that are already blending together well. The acidity sets the seal . 2005 WineEnthusiast
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Food Pairings

Category Pairing
Cheese Mozzarella, Sharp Cheddar, Blue Cheese, Feta, Goat Cheese
Red Meat Roast Beef, Beef Stew, Lamb, Lamb Stew, Salami, Sausage, Variety Meats or Organ Meats, Kidney
Poultry & Eggs Spicy Chicken Dishes
Vegetables Ratatouille
Sauces Red Wine Sauce
Herbs & Spices Anise, Fennel Seed, Tarragon, Bay Leaf, Lavender, Mint, Rosemary, Thyme
Cheese Aged Cheddar

Wine Terms

Name Value
Bordeaux A region in western France that grows famous red wines from the Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Cabernet Franc grapes and white wines from Sauvignon Blanc, Sémillon and Muscadelle grapes. Situated on the Atlantic coast, Bordeaux has a maritime climate with warm summers and fairly mild winters as well as an abundance of rain during harvest time. When young, the finest red Bordeaux wines have a deep cranberry hue and aromas of blackcurrants, plums, spice, cedar, and cassis. For the first ten years or so these wines can be very dry, with tannin masking the fruity flavors. Eventually the wines turn garnet, and develops an extraordinarily complex bouquet and flavor as well as softer tannins. The finest red Bordeaux wines still take 20 years or so before reaching their maturity. Two distinct red wine production zones exist within the Bordeaux region; the Left Bank and the Right Bank. The Left Bank vineyards are located west of the Garonne River and the Gironde Estuary, into which the Garonne empties. The Right Bank vineyards are east and north of the Dordogne River and east of the Grionde Estuary. Of the various wine districts on the Left and Right Banks, four are the most important for red wines: Haut-Médoc; Pessac-Leognan, St-Emilion, and Pomerol. For white wines, the most important are Graves and Pessac-Leognan.
France France is the standard bearer for all the world’s wines, with regard to the types of grapes that are used to make wine and with the system of defining and regulating winemaking. Its Appellation d’Origine Controlee, or AOC system, is the legislative model for most other European countries. Most French wines are named after places. The system is hierarchical; generally the smaller and more specific the region for which a wine is named, the higher its rank. There are four possible ranks of French wine, and each is always stated on the label: Appellation Contrôlée (or AOC), Vin Délimité de Qualité Supérieure (or VDQS); Vin de pays, or country wine; and Vin de table. France has five major wine regions, although there are several others that make interesting wines. The three major regions for red wine are Bordeaux, Burgundy, and the Rhone; for white wines, the regions are Burgundy, the Loire and Alsace. Each region specialized in certain grape varieties for its wines, based on climate, soil, and local tradition. Two other significant French wine regions are Provence and Languedoc-Roussillon, both in the south of France. Cahors, in the southwest of the country, produces increasingly good wines.
Pauillac (poy yac)— a commune in the Haut Medoc district of Bordeaux. Its wines are rich, powerful, firm and tannic, with blackcurrant and cedar aroma and flavors. Home to three of Bordeaux’s most famous wines: Lafitte-Rothschild, Mouton-Rothschild, and Latour.

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