Chateau Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande 2005

A Pauillac red wine combining power and delicacy

The property

Second Grand Cru Classé of Pauillac, the magnificent Château Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande shines on the Pauillac appellation.

It was in 1925 that the Miailhe family, under the features of Édouard and Louis Miailhe, acquired this property on the left bank of Bordeaux. An emblematic figure of Gironde viticulture, May-Eliane de Lencquesaing, daughter of Edouard Miailhe, managed Château Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande from 1978 to 2007, the date of the acquisition of the estate by the Rouzaud family, owner of the Champagne House Louis Roederer.

The vineyard

This large Pauillac vineyard rests on soils composed of gravelly hills on sandy-clay subsoil.

Grape varieties

Cabernet sauvignon, merlot, cabernet franc and petit verdot.

Characteristics and tasting advice for Château Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande 2005

Tasting

2005 is a silky, solid, fine and persistent wine. Its immediate aromatic notes are found in the palate and in the aromatic persistence. We find rose petal, violet, cherry, wild strawberry, licorice and cinnamon. The attack on the palate is linear, dense, without astringency.