Red · Pauillac · France
Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande Pauillac (Grand Cru Classé)
Scored from 8,954 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Red · France (1,134 wines).
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Tasting profile
A reserved, classically styled Pauillac whose dark berry fruit, tobacco, and earthy notes unfold slowly, framed by silky, well-integrated tannins and balanced acidity. Elegant and beautifully composed, with the depth and poise of a Medoc built for patient drinking.
Synthesized from 8,954Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“maravilhoso maravilhoso hora certa de beber feminino inesquecível ano difícil que tem que ter hora certa de beber foi hoje. ...talvez pelos amigo presente s..........”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
The wine is seductive when young without prejudicing its longevity. As well as an oaky flavour imparted by new oak barrels, the wines show inimitable aromas of tobacco, violets, blackcurrant and ripe fruit, and also hints of pencil lead.
Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande Pauillac (Grand Cru Classé) is a red from Pauillac, France, blended from Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. At $189 for the lowest 750 ml listing, it belongs to the $120-and-up band.
The cohort it is ranked inside holds 1,134 French reds. The calibrated figure is built from 8,954 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 9,173 reviewers with two or more ratings feeds the raw-average track instead.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this bottle against every other wine those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — four stars from someone who hands out fives means something very different from four stars from someone who rarely goes above three. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a star average.
- Global percentile
- Where Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande Pauillac (Grand Cru Classé) lands against every wine we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — wines of the same type from the same country. A Chilean red is judged against Chilean reds, not against Champagne. Ranked against Red · France (1,134 wines).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each wine keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 8,954.
