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A supple, well-balanced wine with silky tannins and a long finish. Perfect maturity of the Cabernets and Merlots, but the Petits Verdots suffered in the heat. An excellent vintage.
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Mild, very rainy .Good for the water-table.
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Very rainy in April, otherwise warm and sunny.
Bud burst: March 28th.
Mid point of flowering: June 5th.
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Very hot, especially in July. Development checked because of the dryness.
Temperature and sunshine levels higher than the seasonal average.
Crop thinning of 56 ha; 53 people employed for 14 days.
Mid point of changing colour: August 8th.
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Warm and sunny. An Indian summer.
Beautiful dry weather during the whole harvest.
Harvest: September 19th to September 27th.
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Cabernet Sauvignon: 45%
Merlot: 40%
Cabernet Franc: 15%
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| Robert Parker - Bordeaux - November 1998 |
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"This is an exquisite example of Pichon Lalande with the Merlot component giving the wine a coffee/chocolate/cherry component to go along with the Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc's complex blackberry/cassis fruit. The wine possesses an opaque black/ruby/purple color, and sexy, flamboyant aromatics of pain grillé, black fruits, and cedar. Exquisite on the palate, this full-bodied, layered, multi-dimensional wine should prove to be one of the vintage's most extraordinary success stories. 96/100."
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| Serena Sutcliffe - Tasting Notes - April 1999 |
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"The extra year in bottle gives the extraordinary Pichon scent, cinnamon and cedar, with violets always lurking in the background. Great finess of texture, more 'feminine' than the 1996, lovely violets and cedarwood, with meatiness on the finish. Supreme class."
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| Decanter Magazine - December 1999 |
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HIGHLY RECOMMENDED HHHH
"Spicy oak dominates the nose. Intensely rich, savoury, black fruits on the palate, with strong supporting structure and a long, spicy-fruit finish."
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