Pichon Comtesse Reserve 2024
Pauillac
Bordeaux, France
Regular price£170.00
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Arriving: Spring 2027
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| Style: Red | Packaging: OWC |
| ABV: 0.0% | Closure: Cork |
| Organic: | Drink from: 2030 |
| Biodynamic: | Drink to: 2042 |
| Grapes: 72% Cabernet Sauvignon, 24% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc | |
Critic scores
87-89 RP, 89-91 NM, 91-93 AG, 92-93 JS, 89-91 JD, 86-88 LPB, 92 JA, 92 DC, 91-93 JL, 89-91 DB, 93-95 YB
Critic reviews
"A blend of 72% Cabernet Sauvignon, 24% Merlot and 4% Cabernet Franc, the 2024 Resèrve de la Comtesse offers up aromas of minty cassis, plums and licorice, followed by a medium-bodied, ample and velvety palate that emphasizes upfront charm."
William Kelley, April 2025, RobertParker.com
"The 2024 Réserve de la Comtesse represents half the crop this year, with more Cabernet Sauvignon than ever before, partly due to the replanting program in the vineyard. This sample was aged in 100% new oak, but the final blend will be 50%. It offers raspberry and mulberry scents, with light damp undergrowth aromas percolating through, almost moss-like. Fine delineation. The palate is medium-bodied with slightly rustic tannins on the entry and some wood tannins present, although there will be less in the final blend. Light cedar notes emerge towards the finish, moderate in length, clean and classic in style."
Neal Martin, April 2025, Vinous.com
"The 2024 Réserve de la Comtesse is a very racy, sexy wine. Crushed flowers, mint, lavender, new leather, mocha and spice all grace this exquisite, wonderfully nuanced Réserve. All the elements are so well balanced. Silky tannins add to the wine's total feeling of finesse, but the aromatics are just as inviting. Tasted three times."
Antonio Galloni, April 2025, Vinous.com
"A lighter vintage but juicy and refined, showing lots of crunch and freshness. Healthy tannins are firm and lightly chewy with medium body and an al dente finish. 72% cabernet sauvignon, 24% merlot and 4% cabernet franc."
James Suckling, May 2025, JamesSuckling.com
"Unusually austere on the opening for this highly consistent wine, but things builds slowly but surely, expanding through the mid palate to show chalk, crayon, cassis and cocoa bean, grilled herbs. 48% of overall production in the Pichon Comtesse Reserve, 3.7 pH. IPT 65, 50% new oak for ageing, 15% press wine."
Jane Anson, April 2025, JaneAnson.com
"Nicely fragrant, very Cabernet in the aromatics, dried herbs, mint and blackcurrants. Floral, red and blue fruits, crunchy. Smooth and so succulent, cool and so sleek with a lovely soft juiciness on the mid palate. The end is taut and focussed but this keeps a stylish profile, lean but with enough fruit and texture to be filling. Very sophisticated, serious and structured. Definite charm here. Very easy to drink with salty wet stones on the finish. Not demonstrative, a little severe, but classy too and still with power it’s just funnelled. Liquorice, cola, wet stones, crushed graphite. 15% press. 50% production. Concentrated. 72% of Cabernet Sauvignon which is the highest proportion for Reserve ever. Ageing 50% new oak. 3.7pH."
Georgina Hindle, May 2025, Decanter.com
William Kelley, April 2025, RobertParker.com
"The 2024 Réserve de la Comtesse represents half the crop this year, with more Cabernet Sauvignon than ever before, partly due to the replanting program in the vineyard. This sample was aged in 100% new oak, but the final blend will be 50%. It offers raspberry and mulberry scents, with light damp undergrowth aromas percolating through, almost moss-like. Fine delineation. The palate is medium-bodied with slightly rustic tannins on the entry and some wood tannins present, although there will be less in the final blend. Light cedar notes emerge towards the finish, moderate in length, clean and classic in style."
Neal Martin, April 2025, Vinous.com
"The 2024 Réserve de la Comtesse is a very racy, sexy wine. Crushed flowers, mint, lavender, new leather, mocha and spice all grace this exquisite, wonderfully nuanced Réserve. All the elements are so well balanced. Silky tannins add to the wine's total feeling of finesse, but the aromatics are just as inviting. Tasted three times."
Antonio Galloni, April 2025, Vinous.com
"A lighter vintage but juicy and refined, showing lots of crunch and freshness. Healthy tannins are firm and lightly chewy with medium body and an al dente finish. 72% cabernet sauvignon, 24% merlot and 4% cabernet franc."
James Suckling, May 2025, JamesSuckling.com
"Unusually austere on the opening for this highly consistent wine, but things builds slowly but surely, expanding through the mid palate to show chalk, crayon, cassis and cocoa bean, grilled herbs. 48% of overall production in the Pichon Comtesse Reserve, 3.7 pH. IPT 65, 50% new oak for ageing, 15% press wine."
Jane Anson, April 2025, JaneAnson.com
"Nicely fragrant, very Cabernet in the aromatics, dried herbs, mint and blackcurrants. Floral, red and blue fruits, crunchy. Smooth and so succulent, cool and so sleek with a lovely soft juiciness on the mid palate. The end is taut and focussed but this keeps a stylish profile, lean but with enough fruit and texture to be filling. Very sophisticated, serious and structured. Definite charm here. Very easy to drink with salty wet stones on the finish. Not demonstrative, a little severe, but classy too and still with power it’s just funnelled. Liquorice, cola, wet stones, crushed graphite. 15% press. 50% production. Concentrated. 72% of Cabernet Sauvignon which is the highest proportion for Reserve ever. Ageing 50% new oak. 3.7pH."
Georgina Hindle, May 2025, Decanter.com