Chateau Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande, Pauillac, France 2016 Binend1 plum preserves and Indian spices

plum preserves and Indian spices with a waft of camphor

This means it is more closed and rigid at present

Currant bush undertones

aged with its lees for a year in oak barrels (half new)

Give it time to come around

Chateau Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande, Pauillac, France 2016 Binend1 plum preserves and Indian spicesThe 2016 Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande is every bit as regal as it has always been. Towering and spectacularly rich in the glass, the 2016 captures every ounce of potential is showed from barrel. The 2016 is a vivid, dramatically sweeping wine that will leave readers week at the knees. Beams of tannin give the 2016 soaring intensity that is matched by a host of aromas and flavors that open up in the glass. Blackberry jam, graphite, spice,