Chateau Pichon-Baron, Pauillac, 2007
Pichon-Baron is one of the great 2nd Growths of Pauillac, owned by AXA Millésimes since 1987 and given decades of careful stewardship under Christian Seely (now AXA's overall director). 2007 was a difficult Bordeaux year — wet, cool, demanding rigorous selection — and even the top Pauillacs came out leaner than usual. But Pichon-Baron has always made beautiful wine in tricky vintages: the estate's deep gravel terroir, its old-vine Cabernet Sauvignon backbone, and that meticulous AXA approach produce wines of structure and class even when the weather conspires against it. Eighteen years on, the 2007 is drinking beautifully — cedar, graphite, cassis softened to dried currant, sweet tobacco, savory earth, fine-grained resolved tannin. A leaner, more classical Pauillac built for the table. Drink over the next several years.
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Pichon-Baron is one of the great 2nd Growths of Pauillac, owned by AXA Millésimes since 1987 and given decades of careful stewardship under Christian Seely (now AXA's overall director). 2007 was a difficult Bordeaux year — wet, cool, demanding rigorous selection — and even the top Pauillacs came out leaner than usual. But Pichon-Baron has always made beautiful wine in tricky vintages: the estate's deep gravel terroir, its old-vine Cabernet Sauvignon backbone, and that meticulous AXA approach produce wines of structure and class even when the weather conspires against it. Eighteen years on, the 2007 is drinking beautifully — cedar, graphite, cassis softened to dried currant, sweet tobacco, savory earth, fine-grained resolved tannin. A leaner, more classical Pauillac built for the table. Drink over the next several years.
