2006 Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande, Pauillac, Bordeaux

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2006 Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande, Pauillac, BordeauxIt is great to see Pichon Lalande back on superb form in 2006 with a wine whose purity and linear cassis fruit is reminiscent of their cracking 1996. General Manager Gildas d'Ollone and his team have produced a cerebral yet beguiling Pichon Lalande full of sensual, exotic aromatics and pure supple flavours. This is a massive Pichon softened by a silky texture and velvety finish. New owners Louis Roederer must be delighted with their first vintage

A higher than usual addition of Cabernet Franc in the blend (19%) has resulted in beautiful freshness

Jacques Thienpont seemed as excited as I was by the showing of this wine at 20 years

Wafting from the glass with aromas of tobacco leaf

a hint of tropical fruit

and this is three years before the arrival of current technical director Pierre Olivier Clouet

to show at its full potential

After a brutally torrid 2003

The palate is silky and charming

Now bottled

Utterly divine

this is not a genuinely great wine but it is a great '92

and the rest Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot