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1987 Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande - France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Pauillac (2/15/2012)
Start with a hint of green, bell pepper and green olive, a hint of mint, wet tobacco, also blueberries and cherry. The palate displays sweet vibrant fruits, silky palate and slightly grainy rustic tannins. This is a very good claret especially if you like the freshness and perfume coming from slightly unripe cabernet sauvignon. Pichon Lalande made consistently good to great wines in the 80s, even 81 is drinking nicely.
P.S. This went really well with the rare ruth’s chris fillet on a really hot plate. (91 pts.)
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1987 Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande - France, Bordeaux, Médoc, Pauillac (8/29/2011)
Soft and subtle, almost all tertiary, a hint of green via olive, menthol, hazelnut, west tobacco leaves and forest floor. Medium weight, nice silky palate with still some tannins showing. Certainly not a great wine but a very good claret that complemented the USDA prime fillet.
I agree fully with breezer6’s TN. (90 pts.)
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