Chateau Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande Pauillac 2014 JULY42024 a single bowl of vines

a single bowl of vines tucked in the hills between Ukiah and Anderson Valley where he is a partner in the vineyard

A genuinely unusual bottle that doesn't make you work for it

roughly 60/40 in 2023

in the Sierra Morena mountains of northern Andalucía

Jean-Claude Bessin and his son Romain practice biodynamic viticulture on their 12-hectare estate

Chateau Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande Pauillac 2014 JULY42024 a single bowl of vinesPichon Comtesse is the silkier, more perfumed half of the old Pichon estate, today owned by the Rouzaud family of Champagne Louis Roederer. The 2014 is one of those sneaky good classical Pauillac vintages that the market briefly underrated and the cellar crowd quietly piled into. A traditional Cabernet led blend rounded with Merlot and a kiss of Petit Verdot, it has the floral, graphite edged Comtesse signature plus enough structure to keep evolving.