2009 CHATEAU PICHON-LONGUEVILLE AU BARON DE PICHON-LONGUEVILLE PAUILLAC

(98 Points) Attractive nose of elegant black fruit complicated by peppery spices and an alluring trace of smoke. After the subtle balance and delicacy of the 2008, this wine marks a return to the more formidable, classic style of Pichon Baron with its characteristic tension and upright structure and the powerful personality of a Cabernet Sauvignon-dominant wine from one of the great terroirs of the Médoc. Precision and linearity on the palate but also a degree of racy restraint that indicates another decade at least will be necessary for the wine to really blossom. Bravo! (YC)  Decanter, Review Date: 12/2021