2002 Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande
France
Pauillac 2ème Grand Cru Classé
Bordeaux
Red
80% Cabernet Sauvignon, 17% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc, (2023 vintage)
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2022 - 2032
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Much of the quality of the 2004 Pichon-Lalande is attributable to the strict green harvest that was carried out in July, asserts marketing director Gildas d'Ollone. The estate harvested over a period of three weeks, stopping a couple of times to wait for more thorough ripeness, and ultimately produced a wine rich in polyphenols (IPT of 73), with 13% alcohol, a rather high pH of 3.86, but sound acidity of 3.4 grams per liter. The most important thing is that even the tannins in the pips were ripe, noted Ollone. Pichon-Lalande used saignee to concentrate the must and also made some use of vacuum evaporation.
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"The 2002 is firmer, more classical Pauillac," notes technical director Thomas Do-Chi-Nam, "while the 2003 starts very seductive, then grows in the mouth." Interestingly, Pichon-Lalande produced 39 hectoliters per hectare in 2003, a healthy yield for the year, but only 33 in 2002. And the pH of 3.8 in 2003 is roughly equal to that of the previous year's wine (3.76). "The trick in 2003 was to know when to harvest each block and then to declassify the most tannic lots," said Do-Chi-Nam. Incidentally, the estate liked its cabernet franc in 2003 but was not crazy for the way it performed in the blend and thus left it out. On the other hand, 2003 was not a great year for merlot, noted Do-Chi-Nam, "but we needed the body and sap that merlot provides, so we kept the juice from our oldest merlot vines."
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The crop level here was just 33 hectoliters per hectare due to widespread coulure, particularly severe in the estate's merlot, according to technical director Thomas Do-Chi-Nam. "But we still needed to carry out a green harvest because some of the vines were carrying too much fruit," he noted. A relatively high 65% of the production will go into the grand vin, up significantly from 37% in 2001. All three of Pichon-Lalande's most recent vintages showed extremely well in early April.
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