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Chateau Pichon-Longueville au Baron de Pichon-Longueville, Pauillac, France
Wine Notes
Second Growth. Deuxieme Grand Cru Classe in 1855.
Average Price
$175 (USD)
(Approx, ex-tax, all vintages)
Search Rank 27
Over all vintages, this was the
27th most popular wine on Wine-Searcher last year.
Search rank last month: 29th
Price History for Chateau Pichon-Longueville au Baron de Pichon-Longueville
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Grape Variety: Bordeaux Blend Red
A Bordeaux Blend, at its most basic, is any combination of those grape varieties typically used to make the red wines of Bordeaux. The phrase, which seems to have originated with British wine merchants in the 19th Century, relates as much to wines made from the blend as to the grape-variety combination itself. Far from being an officially defined or legal term, it is almost never used for wine-labeling purposes (although it occasionally appears on back labels). Its equivalent in the United States is Meritage, which is not only legally defined, but also a registered trademark.
... moreRegion Hierarchy
- France
- > Bordeaux
- > Medoc
- > Haut-Medoc
- > Pauillac
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Pauillac wine region
Pauillac is an important commune and red wine appellation of the Haut-Medoc district of Bordeaux, located between Saint-Estephe and Saint-Julien on the western (left) bank of the Gironde estuary.
The stellar reputation of Pauillac wines is founded not only on their quality, but on their historical success in international markets. The 1855 Classification of the Medoc ranked the best chateaux of the area according to the average prices commanded by their wines. Two of the top five were in Pauillac: Chateaux Latour and Lafite Rothschild. They were joined by ... more -
Haut-Medoc wine region
Haut-Medoc is the large southern section of the greater Medoc district of Bordeaux in south-western France and also the name of the appellation that covers the vineyards here. It accounts for two-thirds of the Medoc peninsula and produces more fine wine per acre than almost anywhere else in the world.
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