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Wine Description
The Story
Château Pichon Longueville de Lalande is ideally situated between the Gironde estuary and the Atlantic Ocean. The variety of parcels of land, due to the elements of the earth and their encepagement explains the complexity of the personality of the wines of Pichon. Since the end of the 1970's, the reputation of Chateau Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande has acquired the status of a "super second" and a "nearly first", in light of the consis...
Vintage 1981
Bordeaux 1981 /Le petit mais de grande qualité millésime de 1981 a été éclipsé par le superbe 1982. Le temps chaud et sec a commencé à partir de la floraison et s’est maintenu jusqu’en septembre, lorsque des pluies occasionnelles ont eu lieu jusqu’à ce que la récolte soit terminée dans de bonnes conditions début octobre. D’une manière générale, les rouges produits étaient des vins élégants, moyennement légers et délicats dans toutes les appell...