Château Pichon-Baron 2025
Pauillac 2ème Grand Cru Classé
Bordeaux, France
Regular price£544.00
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Arriving: Mid 2028
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| Style: Red | Packaging: OWC |
| ABV: 13.3% | Closure: Cork |
| Organic: No | Drink from: 2035 |
| Biodynamic: No | Drink to: 2065 |
| Grapes: 84% Cabernet Sauvignon; 16% Merlot | |
Critic scores
96-98 RP, 95-97 NM, 96-98 AG, 96-97 JS, 96-98 JD, 96-98 LPB, 97 JA, 97 DC, 97-99 JL, 96-98 DB, 98-100 YB
Critic reviews
"A brilliant achievement, the 2025 Pichon-Longueville Baron, a blend of 84% Cabernet Sauvignon and 15% Merlot (70% new oak), features a notably high proportion of Cabernet Sauvignon for a warm vintage, exceeding that of 2020 and 2022. It reveals a refined bouquet of dark wild berries, cassis, spice, lead pencil and licorice. Medium- to full-bodied, dense and concentrated, it’s built around a fleshy, finely structured core of fruit with a distinctly Cabernet-driven profile, combining freshness and tension with notable depth. It should age gracefully over the next two to three decades."
Yohan Castaing, April 2026, RobertParker.com
"The 2025 Pichon Baron was picked over 16 days between September 8 and 24 at just 24 hl/ha, matured in 70% new oak. Like the Les Griffons, it has a subtle estuarine/sea spray element that intertwines with the mélange of red and black fruit. The Merlot is actually more expressive than recent vintages. The palate is medium-bodied, with grainy tannins, lovely crispness and elegance, gaining depth as it moves into its final third. Slightly chalky tannins (a leitmotif of the vintage, especially in Pauillac), gentle grip, with an almost mellow finish, suggest that it might be earlier drinking than the 2019 or 2022. Superb."
Neal Martin, May 2026, Vinous.com
"Silky, aromatic and layered in the glass, the 2025 Pichon Baron is a total stunner. What a wine. Sweet red cherry/plum fruit, blood orange and rose petal are some of the many notes that caress the palate. Hints of pomegranate, mint and exotic spice appear later, adding layers of nuance. The wine's striking mid-palate sweetness and overall balance are the stuff dreams are made of. This is exquisite. Yields were just 24 hectoliters per hectare. The 2025 is expected to spend 18 months in French oak, 70% new."
Antonio Galloni, April 2026, Vinous.com
"Restrained power, elegant fine grained tannins, gentle extraction at 26C, rosebuds evident. This has clear Pauillac character, coupled with the finesse and drinkability of the vintage. Again the anis and slate that I have seen in a number of the best wines this year. Very impressive. 70% new oak. 3.72 pH, 24hl/ha, 2nd year in a row with such low yields."
Jane Anson, April 2026, JaneAnson.com
"Dark berry fruit aromas. Ripe and grippy, this takes hold straight away with upfront tannins making their mark, covering the mouth in a fine layer of chalkiness but with a cool, wet stone element too. So mineral, very transparent in terms of terroir expression. Lithe and focused, there’s tension as well as. You can feel the muscles of the Cabernet but there’s a slightly chew and juiciness behind the tannin wall. Very precise, with meticulous detail to the tannins, fruit, and cooling acidity. Sophisticated and very enjoyable, if more tense at this point than some others. Blueberry and plum and fresh mint. There’s a real delicacy, pixelated aspect to the overall expression – grand and majestic. Harvest started on 8 September. 3.72pH."
Georgina Hindle, April 2026, Decanter.com
"(Pauillac; 84% Cabernet Sauvignon; 16% Merlot; a final yield of 24 hl/ha; pH 3.72; IPT 73; 13.3% alcohol; 42% of the total production; tasted at with Christian Seely and Corinne Ilić at Pichon Baron). This is divine aromatically. It has that slight seriousness of the vintage, so well expressed by the radiant beauty of the Cabernet fruit. I love the hazelnut shell nuttiness, from the ripe pips I presume, and the hint, only that as yet, of the dark haunting cedar and the graphite and pencil-shavings that will coarse through the mid-palate with aging. The quality of the tannins is exceptional and this has a most gracious cool spherical core - plungepool-like yet more ample in frame, perhaps more the cool glassiness of the lake at night. The is tapering on the finish where one finds that lovely trace of cedar wrapped up in those slightly chalky, powdery tannins. This is extremely delicate on the finale and perhaps the most elegant and refined Pichon Baron I've tasted en primeur. I love it. "
Colin Hay, April 2026, DrinksBusiness.com
Yohan Castaing, April 2026, RobertParker.com
"The 2025 Pichon Baron was picked over 16 days between September 8 and 24 at just 24 hl/ha, matured in 70% new oak. Like the Les Griffons, it has a subtle estuarine/sea spray element that intertwines with the mélange of red and black fruit. The Merlot is actually more expressive than recent vintages. The palate is medium-bodied, with grainy tannins, lovely crispness and elegance, gaining depth as it moves into its final third. Slightly chalky tannins (a leitmotif of the vintage, especially in Pauillac), gentle grip, with an almost mellow finish, suggest that it might be earlier drinking than the 2019 or 2022. Superb."
Neal Martin, May 2026, Vinous.com
"Silky, aromatic and layered in the glass, the 2025 Pichon Baron is a total stunner. What a wine. Sweet red cherry/plum fruit, blood orange and rose petal are some of the many notes that caress the palate. Hints of pomegranate, mint and exotic spice appear later, adding layers of nuance. The wine's striking mid-palate sweetness and overall balance are the stuff dreams are made of. This is exquisite. Yields were just 24 hectoliters per hectare. The 2025 is expected to spend 18 months in French oak, 70% new."
Antonio Galloni, April 2026, Vinous.com
"Restrained power, elegant fine grained tannins, gentle extraction at 26C, rosebuds evident. This has clear Pauillac character, coupled with the finesse and drinkability of the vintage. Again the anis and slate that I have seen in a number of the best wines this year. Very impressive. 70% new oak. 3.72 pH, 24hl/ha, 2nd year in a row with such low yields."
Jane Anson, April 2026, JaneAnson.com
"Dark berry fruit aromas. Ripe and grippy, this takes hold straight away with upfront tannins making their mark, covering the mouth in a fine layer of chalkiness but with a cool, wet stone element too. So mineral, very transparent in terms of terroir expression. Lithe and focused, there’s tension as well as. You can feel the muscles of the Cabernet but there’s a slightly chew and juiciness behind the tannin wall. Very precise, with meticulous detail to the tannins, fruit, and cooling acidity. Sophisticated and very enjoyable, if more tense at this point than some others. Blueberry and plum and fresh mint. There’s a real delicacy, pixelated aspect to the overall expression – grand and majestic. Harvest started on 8 September. 3.72pH."
Georgina Hindle, April 2026, Decanter.com
"(Pauillac; 84% Cabernet Sauvignon; 16% Merlot; a final yield of 24 hl/ha; pH 3.72; IPT 73; 13.3% alcohol; 42% of the total production; tasted at with Christian Seely and Corinne Ilić at Pichon Baron). This is divine aromatically. It has that slight seriousness of the vintage, so well expressed by the radiant beauty of the Cabernet fruit. I love the hazelnut shell nuttiness, from the ripe pips I presume, and the hint, only that as yet, of the dark haunting cedar and the graphite and pencil-shavings that will coarse through the mid-palate with aging. The quality of the tannins is exceptional and this has a most gracious cool spherical core - plungepool-like yet more ample in frame, perhaps more the cool glassiness of the lake at night. The is tapering on the finish where one finds that lovely trace of cedar wrapped up in those slightly chalky, powdery tannins. This is extremely delicate on the finale and perhaps the most elegant and refined Pichon Baron I've tasted en primeur. I love it. "
Colin Hay, April 2026, DrinksBusiness.com