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Score 95/100 · Wine Spectator

What a nose here, from crushed mulberry to tanned leather to tar. Full-bodied, with big, velvety tannins that are soft and caressing, like cashmere. This is so tight and powerful still. it seems to be holding back. Be patient, because it will open with another five or six years of bottle age. Hard to wait. So why do it?¿'89/'99 Bordeaux blind retrospective (2009). Drink now. 20,000 cases made.James Suckling, Wine Spectator 2010

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Robert Parker
Score 95/100 · Robert Parker

Both the 1989 and 1990 vintages exhibit opaque, dense purple colors that suggest massive wines of considerable extraction and richness. The dense, full-bodied 1989 is brilliantly made with huge, smoky, chocolatey, cassis aromas intermingled with scents of toasty oak. Well-layered, with a sweet inner-core of fruit, this awesomely endowed, backward, tannic, prodigious 1989 needs another 5-6 years of cellaring; it should last for three decades or more. It is unquestionably a great Pichon-Longueville-Baron. Feb 1997, www.robertparker.com

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Château Pichon Baron 1:1
Pichon Baron

Pauillac’s Ch. Pichon Baron, formerly known as Ch. Pichon-Longueville Baron, is ranked as one of the 15 Second Growths from the 1855 Classification and is considered one of the "Super Seconds".

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