1999 Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande
France
Pauillac 2ème Grand Cru Classé
Bordeaux
Red
Bordeaux Blend
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2019 - 2027
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"The 2000 is a more massive wine while the 2001 is silkier and more elegant," notes technical director Thomas Do-Chi-Nam, adding that the tannin index was actually slightly higher in 2001. The latter vintage was harder to extract, and thus the estate did a longer maceration, with more pumpovers and delestage [a process whereby the juice is drained from the tank, then poured back over the solids]. The 2001 features a rather high 14% of petit verdot (along with 50% cabernet sauvignon and 36% merlot), which marketing director Gildas d'Ollone told me gives the wine more dynamism. "It's like adding lemon to the sauce," he explained.
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According to technical director Thomas Do-Chi-Nam, the 2000 vintage brought the highest tannins levels ever recorded at Pichon-Lalande, and the challenge was to craft a wine with sufficiently enveloped tannins. The wine is similar to '96 but bigger, he added. Some saignee and osmose inverse were used to concentrate the must. The 2000 Pichon-Lalande is clearly riper and more complex than the '99, and is likely to develop slowly in bottle.
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Pichon-Lalande picked its older cabernet vines very late in '99, in early October; a bit of petit verdot, says technical director Thomas Do-Chi-Nam, added a violet lift to the wine. Even though there's more merlot in the wine than usual (47%), added Do-Chi-Nam, the vintage has more aging potential than the '98. Among the recent modifications here are temperature control in the estate's concrete tanks beginning with the '99 harvest. There are now ten tanks, allowing the estate to segregate and vinify its various parcels more carefully. Pichon-Lalande also invested in a new concentrator (the old Entropie system was installed at their Chateau Bernadotte), and eliminated a good 10% of the crop in '99.
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