Chateau Pichon Longueville de Lalande 2015

Wine Spectator

A fresh and focused style, with a terrific beam of black cherry and black currant compote flavors. Strong graphite and black tea notes harness the finish, ending with alder and tobacco echoes. This has serious length without losing any drive along the way. Best from 2022 through 2038.

Roger Voss - Wine Enthusiast

This is the new taste for this estate: richly endowed while remaining elegant and suave. Certainly, there is great concentration here as well as rich black fruits. But they are given a sense of style and poise that will remain with this wine as it ages. Drink from 2026.

Mike Bennie - The Wine Front

Thrust and power married to suppleness. New oak a feature in 2015, but richness does well to mitigate. Paulliac personified, it feels. Dark berries, currants and black olive scents, overlay of clove and mahogany wood character adding depth to the bouquet. Richer than expected to taste, quietly powerful, saturates palate with dark, plummy fruit, well-meshed cedary-clove spice, pepper and graphite-tannins. Coursing, gently powerful wine that builds in intensity. An approachable wine now, you could say. A fuller expression.

Jane Anson - Decanter Magazine

Beautifully extracted, this is rich, ripe and layered. It is utterly gorgeous and has real precision and tension. It delivers its Pauillac swagger with the most gentle of hands - the tannins are fine, layered-up and building their defences without imposing too heavily on the succulent black fruits. It judges the vintage extremely well and is the best in this line-up for me. 1% Petit Verdot completes the blend. 60% new oak..

James Suckling

This shows spices, pepper, blueberries and blackcurrants on the nose. Full body, very polished tannins and a long and beautiful finish. Shows such gorgeous texture. Precise and transparent. Try in 2022.

James Suckling

This is absolutely beautiful with super tannin quality that gives you the most silky texture. Precise. It goes for minutes. Full and concentrated yet all in balance.

Huon Hooke - The Real Review

Very ripe, deep bouquet of black fruits: concentrated, lush fruit. Superb flavour, fruit and ripeness. Soft tannins. An opulent style. A powerful, thickly-textured palate with mouthfilling properties and extract to burn. Tannic - but the tannins are ripe and supple. Great wine.