June 4, 2025
Pichon Lalande 2024 - Sexy and Sillky 2024 Release
Pichon Lalande 2024 releases with a -18% discount to 2023
“Smooth and silky, it delivers great energy and intensity, balancing delicate chew, fleshiness, and fine, muscular tannins. Structured yet tight, it reveals iodine, salty graphite, cool blue fruit, mint, and cola.” - Decanter
Pichon Comtesse de Lalande is Pauillac’s queen of elegance, producing some of the most sensuous wines on the Left Bank. Known for its higher Merlot content and signature silky texture, the estate consistently delivers wines that balance power with grace. In recent years, under the guidance of Nicolas Glumineau, quality has soared—firmly re-establishing Pichon Lalande among Bordeaux’s elite. A Super Second in every sense.
The house style of Pichon Lalande is one of a silky texture and 2024 lives up to that. It was the silkiest that we tried on the left bank. Pichon Comtesse 2024 is a triumph of precision and elegance in a challenging vintage. With 83% Cabernet Sauvignon, it shows fragrant cassis, blueberry, iris, and graphite, wrapped in a sleek, silky texture. Layers of sweet spice, crushed stone, and savoury blue fruit build towards a long, mineral finish. Critics have praised its poise, polish and fine tannins—“one of the most polished and complete wines of the year,” says Matthew Jukes. A truly refined, expressive Pauillac.
Releasing at €105 In Bond per bottle, a discount of 18% to the 2023 vintage, this is a compelling offer for one of Pauillac’s most refined expressions—a wine that captures the grace of the estate and the quiet confidence of a First Growth pretender.
Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande 2024
€105* In Bond per bottle
96 Points | Decanter, Georgina Hindle
This wine offers pure, sophisticated aromatics of blueberries, blackcurrants, peony, and iris, with crayon and inky notes. Smooth and silky, it delivers great energy and intensity, balancing delicate chew, fleshiness, and fine, muscular tannins. Structured yet tight, it reveals iodine, salty graphite, cool blue fruit, mint, and cola. The texture grows on the second taste, gaining mass and flesh, with juicy sweetness on the mid-palate, evolving into a chewy finish. Tobacco, clove, liquorice, dark chocolate, and cedar add complexity. Mouthwatering acidity and precise balance showcase Nicolas Glumineau's skill, creating a svelte, energetic wine with a lot going on. 16% press. 50% production. 65% new oak. 3.7pH.
19+ Points | Matthew Jukes
Winemaker Nicolas Glumineau was justifiably proud of the trio of glorious wines he showed during Primeurs week. This Grand Vin was the second tasted (de Pez is always last because of its tannin profile), and it is a resplendent parent to the charmingly forward and flattering Réserve. Pichon Lalande, by contrast, is a more intense and rich version, summoning up the trademark power that Cabernet brings to the party. It is entirely captivating, and it appears that while Merlot and Cabernet Franc form a full 17% of this wine, they are merely decorative, adding filigree detail to the statuesque structure of Cabernet Sauvignon (only Cabernet Sauvignon press wine was used). This wine embodies the vintage, viewed through a Lalande lens, resulting in a sophisticated, unhurried creation with rare class and breeding. It is worth noting that the finest wines in 2024 are separated by the also-rans by a gulf in quality, and this is one of the most polished and complete. The finish is so discreet and sensitively handled that it barely registers a tannic warning on my sensors. Brilliant and intuitive, this is Pichon Lalande at its finest, even in the most challenging conditions.
95-96 Points | James Suckling
The length and linear nature of this wine make it outstanding. Medium-bodied with polished and refined tannins that caress the palate. Extremely well done. The length and finesse are impressive.
94-96 Points | Jeb Dunnuck
The Grand Vin from this reference point Pauillac château, the 2024 Château Pichon Longueville Comtess De Lalande checks in as 83% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14% Merlot, and 3% Cabernet Franc hitting 12.7% alcohol with a pH of 3.7 and an IPT of 70. Beautiful Cabernet Sauvignon notes of cassis, graphite, freshly sharpened pencil, and crushed stone all define the aromatics, and it hits the palate with medium-bodied richness, a concentrated, layered, wonderfully textured mouthfeel, ripe tannins, and outstanding length.
94-96 Points | Vinous - Antonio Galloni
The 2024 Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande is plush, sensual and inviting. Succulent dark-toned fruit, sweet spice, new leather, mocha, chocolate and lavender build nicely. Here, too, the tannins are so polished, so refined. The 2024 is an especially elegant Pichon-Comtesse. It’s also very clearly one of the wines of the vintage. Bravo. Tasted four times.
94 Points | Jane Anson Inside Bordeaux
Fragrant cassis bud, rose petals, and peony. Great definition, mouthwatering on the finish, savoury blue and black fruits, less concentration than the past few vintages, but this uses slate textured tannins, cold ash smoke and well-judged salinity to compensate and build interest and engagement. Harvest September 22 through to October 9. 66% new oak. Low yields of around 30hl/h. 16% press wine, 52% of the overall production (with the rest in Pichon Comtesse Reserve, no 3rd wine). 3.7 pH. IPT 70,
Fine Wine Library
The house style of Pichon Lalande is one of a silky texture and 2024 lives up to that. It was the silkiest that we tried on the left bank. Lots of freshness with aromas of plum, cassis, blackberry, vanilla, licorice, light oak - you name it, Lalande had it. Light on it’s feet but great structure overall. It was our last stop of the tasting week and brilliant way to end. They also let us taste some secret white wine projects that they have are working on. It will be exciting to see what happens in the future on those.
*Prices are accurate as of the blog publication date and may be subject to change.