This wine seems to be just beginning to turn the corner and was excellent in its most recent tasting. For much of its life it has been a stunning wine, not far off the mark from the prodigious 1982. The color is still a healthy dark garnet with some amber creeping in at the edge. The wine shows a very distinctive nose of asphalt, tobacco, and cigar box, intermixed with some sweet cherries and black currants. In the mouth it is medium to full-bodied, but the fruit seems to be ever-so-slightly fading. In the finish, the tannins and acidity are beginning to poke through. Nevertheless, this is still underrated and always a sleeper vintage for Pichon-Lalande, but it requires consumption.
(WA-Jan 2003)
| BRAND | PICHON LALANDE |
|---|---|
| Product Name | Ch. Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande 2 eme Cru Classe Pauillac 1983 375ml |
| Unit of Measure | BTL |
| Country | FRANCE |
| Region | BORDEAUX |
| Appellation | PAUILLAC |
| Vintage | 1983 |
| Rating (WA) | 90 |
| Rating (BH) | NA |
| Rating (WS) | 95 |
