chateau pibran pauillac 2019 750ml

Winemaker Notes

Blend: 53% Merlot, 47% Cabernet Sauvignon

The Barrel Sample for this wine is above 14% ABV.

Professional Ratings

• 94Jeb Dunnuck

  Lots of cassis, graphite, chalky minerality, and sappy herb notes emerge from the 2019 Château Pibran, a rich, medium to full-bodied, beautifully concentrated Pauillac. I love its purity of fruit, the balance is spot on, and the tannins, while present, are perfectly ripe and polished. It's not a blockbuster and shows the more elegant style of the vintage, but it's a gorgeous, classy Pauillac that will benefit from 4-6 years of bottle age and have 25+ of prime drinking. Best After 2026

• 92Wine Enthusiast

  This small estate, with the same winemaking team as Pichon Baron, reveals a gentler view of Cabernet Sauvignon. The blend with Merlot gives plenty of ripe fruit with smooth tannins and an attractive medium-term potential.
  Barrel Sample: 90-92

• 91James Suckling

  Aromas of black cherries, blackberries, cloves, black tea, wet earth and graphite. Medium-to full-bodied with firm, smooth tannins. Nicely balanced, with a compact core of dark fruit.

• 91Wine Spectator

  Juicy and ripe, with plum, blackberry and black currant paste flavors that have good energy as they move along, picking up singed alder, cast iron and tobacco accents along the way. Approachable but will develop a bit more, too. Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink now.

   

• 90Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

  The 2019 Pibran offers up aromas of plums, sweet berries, loamy soil and licorice. Medium to full-bodied, ample and velvety, with polished tannins and a succulent core of fruit, it's a charming, giving wine from a cooler site than Pichon Baron, with limestone soils and a higher proportion of Merlot in the blend. Best After 2021