Château Pichon-Longueville Baron, known universally as Pichon Baron, is one of Pauillac’s two Deuxième Cru classés from the celebrated Pichon domain on the southern boundary of the appellation, consistently producing wines of first-growth quality from its 73 hectares of Cabernet Sauvignon-dominant vineyards on deep Pauillac gravel adjacent to Château Latour. Under the ownership of AXA Millésimes since 1987, the estate has invested continuously in both vineyard management and cellar technology, producing wines that consistently earn outstanding scores from all major approved publications and whose Cabernet Sauvignon-dominant character—typically 65-70% in most vintages, rising to 79% in the 2017—provides the structural framework for wines of exceptional ageing potential and classical Pauillac character. Wine Advocate described the 2010 as one of the estate’s “great wines of the modern era, along with 2016, 2010 and 1989,” confirming the 2010 as a landmark vintage in the Pichon Baron programme.

The 2010 Bordeaux vintage is one of the most uniformly great in living memory, producing wines of extraordinary structural depth, natural freshness and ageing ambition across all the major left-bank appellations. In Pauillac, whose deep gravel soils and late-ripening Cabernet Sauvignon benefit particularly from the long, cool growing season and exceptional September that defined 2010’s harvest conditions, the wines produced in this vintage are consistently described by critics as the most serious and age-worthy Pauillac produced since the legendary 1996 and 1989 vintages. The wine-searcher aggregate of 96/100 across all approved publications for the 2010 Pichon Baron confirms the critical consensus around a wine of genuine greatness at fifteen years from harvest that is still developing rather than declining.

A 2010 Pichon Baron from this vintage, now approaching the first stages of its optimal drinking window after fifteen years of careful development, represents an outstanding acquisition of mature but still-developing classified Pauillac at one of Bordeaux’s most reliable and consistently performing Deuxième Crus. For those who seek the pleasures of the 2010 vintage in a format that is now beginning to reveal its considerable secondary complexity, this is a wine of outstanding quality and timing.

Deep ruby with a complex and developing nose of blackcurrant, cedar, graphite, cigar wrapper, tobacco, iron mineral and the distinctive powerful elegance of Pauillac Cabernet Sauvignon on deep gravel soils. Full-bodied with firm but increasingly supple tannins, excellent natural acidity and a very long, mineral, classical Pauillac finish of considerable depth and persistence. Best from 2025 through 2045.