Chateau Pichon Baron Pauillac 2006 agrapart almost iron-filing bite

almost iron-filing bite

balanced rendering

A bourbon finished in Cabernet Sauvignon barrels—wine-country influence on a mountain-state whiskey

now in the hands of Marie-Luce Metaireau and her partner

Carbonnieux Rouge is Cabernet Sauvignon-led

Chateau Pichon Baron Pauillac 2006 agrapart almost iron-filing bitePichon Baron is a Pauillac Second Growth that has performed at First Growth level for much of the AXA Millsimes era. The 2006 vintage is one of the great classical Pauillacs of its decade: structured, cool, savory, with the kind of cassis and graphite spine that needed nearly two decades to unwind. Cabernet Sauvignon dominant with a generous Merlot fleshing out, it finally reads as fully mature without losing its tannic backbone. A textbook expression