Chateau Pichon-Longueville Baron Les Tourelles de Longueville 2020
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James Suckling
Redcurrant and berries with flowers and blood orange aromas. Full- to medium-bodied with firm and racy tannins that are polished and very long and bright. Juicy at the end. Mostly merlot (64%) as well as 29% cabernet sauvignon and the rest, cabernet franc. Better after 2027.
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Jeb Dunnuck
Looking at the 2020 Les Tourelles De Longueville from the team at Pichon-Longueville Baron, this beauty is based on 64% Merlot, 29% Cabernet Sauvignon, and the rest Cabernet Franc aged in just 30% new French oak. Ripe red and black fruits, sappy tobacco, melted chocolate, and spicy notes all emerge from this medium-bodied, round, supple, undeniably delicious Pauillac. It has the vintage’s fresher, focused style, yet there's plenty of charm here already. Drink bottles over the coming 15+ years.
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Vinous
The 2020 Les Tourelles de Longueville is a dark, powerful wine, with tons of textural intensity, and yet it remains pretty compact, with burly tannins that have not softened much yet. The intense heat of the year is evident in the wine's concentration and burly tannins. I would give this a few years in bottle to see what happens. Rating:91+
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Wine Enthusiast
This Merlot dominated wine is ripe and soft. Juicy freshness is enriched with a core of tannins and soft black fruits.
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Decanter
Floral and aromatic, with cinnamon, cedar spices and liquorice. Chewy and plush, this is generous, open and appealing at this point, but still with a vein of focus and precision. Lots of spiced edges. Cinnamon, clove, vanilla and aniseed but also some minerality, a slightly chalkiness and minty freshness. Wide and expansive with styling and sculpting. I love the undercurrent of power, you know you're in Pauillac. Juicy core and a long finish.
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Wine Spectator
A textbook Pauillac, with a beam of cassis and blackberry fruit laced with graphite and lightly singed alder. Feels silky and easy along the edges, but a buried iron note peeks through at the end, keeping this grounded. Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Rich and generous, the 2020 Les Tourelles de Longueville exhibits aromas of dark berries, cigar wrapper and loamy soil, followed by a medium to full-bodied, fleshy palate. It's a giving, Merlot-driven cuvée that will drink well young.
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The Estate was founded in the late 17th Century. This period was known as the Grand Siecle, or "great century", in reference to Louis XIV's 1661 accession to the French throne. In 1689 Pierre Desmezures de Rauzan, an influential wine merchant and steward of the prestigious Latour and and Margaux estates, bought plots of vines close to the Latour estate to create Enclos Rauzan. These vines were part of his daughter Therese's dowry when she married Baron Jacques Pichon de Longueville in 1694, the year in which the Pichon Baron estate was founded. An illustrious estate, with an enduring reputation, was born. It remained in the same family for generations.
In 1850 the property was divided in two. Baron Raoul Pichon de Longueville's section became the Pichon Baron estate. The second section, belonging to his three sisters, became Pichon Comtesse. Baron Raoul was proud of his prestigious property, and in 1851 he commissioned the imposing chateau inspired by Renaissance architecture that we know today. This uniquely charming and romantic chateau, with its two emblematic turrets, has stood proudly at the vineyard's heart ever since. During the Universal Exhibition of 1855, the wine was classed as a Second Grand Cru Classe according to the ranking system requested by Emperor Napoleon III, who wished to showcase Bordeaux's great wines. In 1933, the Pichon de Longueville family sold the property to the Bouteiller family, who managed the chateau for over 50 years.
In 1987 the estate was bought by AXA Millesimes, whose aim is to enable great wines from the vineyards with a glorious past to achieve their full potential. An architectural competition was launched in collaboration with the Paris Pompidou Centre to provide the estate with new operational buildings. The comprehensive reconstruction of the fermenting room and cellar, and renovation of the chateau, began in 1988. Since then, the 19th century chateau's image has been
reflected in an ornamental pool stretching majestically before it.. And since 2008, its silvery expanse conceals an underground cellar, reminiscent of Jules Verne's Nautilus, with view of both the water and sky. The barrel cellar complements a production process in which excellence is paramount, in the finest tradition of great Pauillac wines.