2025 Pichon Baron

Auslieferung bis zum Herbst 2028!
Delivery until Fall 2028!

(Pauillac; 84% Cabernet Sauvignon; 16% Merlot; a final yield of 24 hl/ha; pH 3.72; IPT 73; 13.3% alcohol; 42% of the total production; tasted at with Christian Seely and Corinne Ilic at Pichon Baron). This is divine aromatically. It has that slight seriousness of the vintage, so well expressed by the radiant beauty of the Cabernet fruit. I love the hazelnut shell nuttiness, from the ripe pips I presume, and the hint, only that as yet, of the dark haunting cedar and the graphite and pencil-shavings that will coarse through the mid-palate with aging. The quality of the tannins is exceptional and this has a most gracious cool spherical core - plungepool-like yet more ample in frame, perhaps more the cool glassiness of the lake at night. The is tapering on the finish where one finds that lovely trace of cedar wrapped up in those slightly chalky, powdery tannins. This is extremely delicate on the finale and perhaps the most elegant and refined Pichon Baron I've tasted en primeur. I love it.
96-98/100 Colin Hay

In a vintage defined by grand structure and power, Château Pichon Baron moves with remarkable poise, commanding both tension and release with quiet authority. Rather than striking the palate head-on with towering tannins, it unfolds with a jade-like roundness, gently recounting its journey through the heat and dryness of 2025. The fruit comes first, vivid, juicy, and intensely aromatic, with bayberry and black plum surging forward in a burst of expression that is simply irresistible. Across the palate, the wine feels luminous and expansive, yet charged with immense energy, completely free of heaviness. Instead, it carries a sense of weightless lift, as if rising through clouds. Its success is not only the gift of a great vintage, but also the result of the winemaker’s near-obsessive attention to detail. Its future holds boundless promise.
98-99/100 Alexandre Ma

Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2025 Pichon Baron is a little closed and broody to start off, soon opening up to reveal notes of warm cassis, boysenberry preserves, graphite, and black raspberries, plus suggestions of charcoal, black olives, and violets. The medium-bodied palate shimmers with energetic black and blue fruit layers, supported by ripe, fine-grained tannins and fantastic tension, finishing long and perfumed. The blend is 84% Cabernet Sauvignon and 16% Merlot. It has a pH of 3.72 and the alcohol is 13.3%. It is aging in French oak barriques, 80% new, for 18 months.
96-98/100 Lisa Perrotti-Brown

Restrained power, elegant fine grained tannins, gentle extraction at 26C, rosebuds evident. This has clear Pauillac character, coupled with the finesse and drinkability of the vintage. Again the anis and slate that I have seen in a number of the best wines this year. Very impressive. 70% new oak. 3.72 pH, 24hl/ha, 2nd year in a row with such low yields.
97/100 Jane Anson