Deep dark ruby garnet, opaque core, violet reflections, delicate rim brightening. Ripe black cherries, fine cassis, a hint of precious wood, delicate nougat, tobacco nuances, inviting bouquet. Taut, tightly woven, ripe cherry fruit, extract-sweet texture, fine tannins, freshly structured, mineral-lemon nuances on the finish, shows energy and length, sure maturity potential.

(97-99 points) The complex aromatic profile expresses flowers, black currants, licorice, black cherries, cocoa, espresso, cigar wrappers, and a touch of mint. The palate delivers a beautiful combination of vitality, sweetness, energy, and purity in the fruits. The long, vibrant finish is packed with layers of fruits. Yet, even with all the concentration, there is an elegance, and regal charm meshed with power. The endnotes continue expanding, and building long after the wine has left the glass. This modern classic will be great with just 3-5 years of bottle age. It also has the potential to age and evolve for 3 - 4 decades. The vintage was shaped in large part by daily tastings of the berries in each parcel, and even single rows of vines, seeking the best moment to pick. Another factor was which tanks to use for fermentations as well as what parcels went into specific tanks due to the vintages low yields. The wine blends 84% Cabernet Sauvignon with 16% Merlot. 13.3% ABV, 3.72 pH. The harvest took place September 8 - September 24. This marks the earliest start for a harvest in the history of the estate. Yields were quite low at 24 hectoliters per hectare. The wine is aging in 70% new, French oak barrels. Drink from 2032-2070. Read more at:https://www.thewinecellarinsider.com/search-wine-tasting-notes/?szSearch=2025%20pichon%20baron

(96-98 points) (Pauillac; 84% Cabernet Sauvignon, 16% Merlot; a final yield of 24 hl/ha; pH 3.72; IPT 73; 13.3% ABV; 42% of the total production; tasted at with Christian Seely and Corinne Ilić at Pichon Baron). This is divine aromatically. It has that slight seriousness of the vintage, so well expressed by the radiant beauty of the Cabernet fruit. I love the hazelnut shell nuttiness (from the ripe pips I presume) and the hint (only that as yet) of the dark, haunting cedar, and the graphite and pencil-shavings that will coarse through the mid-palate with aging. The quality of the tannins is exceptional and this has a most gracious, cool, spherical core – plungepool-like yet more ample in frame, perhaps more the cool glassiness of the lake at night. There is tapering on the finish, where one finds that lovely trace of cedar wrapped up in those slightly chalky, powdery tannins. This is extremely delicate on the finale and perhaps the most elegant and refined Pichon Baron I've tasted en primeur. I love it. 96-98

(96-98 points) A Cabernet-dominant blend of 84% Cabernet Sauvignon and 16% Merlot that will spend 18 months in 70% new barrels with the balance in once-used oak, the 2025 Château Pichon-Longueville Baron sports a deep purple hue as well as a ripe bouquet of cassis, blueberries, crushed stone, and liquid violets. On the palate, it's full-bodied, with a round, layered, sexy mouthfeel, tons of fruit, ripe tannins, and outstanding length. Checking in at 13.3% alcohol with a pH of 3.72, it's one of the more sunny, voluptuous, sexy wines in the vintage.

(96-98 points) A brilliant achievement, the 2025 Pichon-Longueville Baron, a blend of 84% Cabernet Sauvignon and 15% Merlot (70% new oak), features a notably high proportion of Cabernet Sauvignon for a warm vintage, exceeding that of 2020 and 2022. It reveals a refined bouquet of dark wild berries, cassis, spice, lead pencil and licorice. Medium- to full-bodied, dense and concentrated, it’s built around a fleshy, finely structured core of fruit with a distinctly Cabernet-driven profile, combining freshness and tension with notable depth. It should age gracefully over the next two to three decades.

(96-98 points) Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2025 Pichon Baron is a little closed and broody to start off, soon opening up to reveal notes of warm cassis, boysenberry preserves, graphite, and black raspberries, plus suggestions of charcoal, black olives, and violets. The medium-bodied palate shimmers with energetic black and blue fruit layers, supported by ripe, fine-grained tannins and fantastic tension, finishing long and perfumed. The blend is 84% Cabernet Sauvignon and 16% Merlot. It has a pH of 3.72 and the alcohol is 13.3%. It is aging in French oak barriques, 80% new, for 18 months.

(96-98 points) Silky, aromatic and layered in the glass, the 2025 Pichon Baron is a total stunner. What a wine. Sweet red cherry/plum fruit, blood orange and rose petal are some of the many notes that caress the palate. Hints of pomegranate, mint and exotic spice appear later, adding layers of nuance. The wine's striking mid-palate sweetness and overall balance are the stuff dreams are made of. This is exquisite. Yields were just 24 hectoliters per hectare. The 2025 is expected to spend 18 months in French oak, 70% new. -- Antonio Galloni

(96-98 points) The grand vin has a very elegant, floral, precise nose, with notes of griottes, currants, wild flowers and lavender, the style of Pichon these days very precise and floral. The palate has such delicious harmony, with an elegant and svelte start to the palate, followed up by a fine-boned core of tannins coming out through the middle, and at all times it possesses a fresh, vibrant, linear and floral drive. The tannins provide a flourish of energy in the end, and they linger long. A fabulously elegant Pichon-Baron in the making, but it has the substance to go for decades. It is 84% Cabernet Sauvignon and 16% Merlot, with a yield of 24 hl/ha. It was picked from September 8th onwards, the earliest harvest in thirty years, finishing 24th September. The alcohol is reported to be 13.3%. 96-98/100

Dark berry fruit aromas. Ripe and grippy, this takes hold straight away with upfront tannins making their mark, covering the mouth in a fine layer of chalkiness but with a cool, wet stone element too. So mineral, very transparent in terms of terroir expression. Lithe and focused, there’s tension as well as. You can feel the muscles of the Cabernet but there’s a slightly chew and juiciness behind the tannin wall. Very precise, with meticulous detail to the tannins, fruit, and cooling acidity. Sophisticated and very enjoyable, if more tense at this point than some others. Blueberry and plum and fresh mint. There’s a real delicacy, pixelated aspect to the overall expression – grand and majestic. Harvest started on 8 September. 3.72pH.

Restrained power, elegant fine grained tannins, gentle extraction at 26C, rosebuds evident. This has clear Pauillac character, coupled with the finesse and drinkability of the vintage. Again the anis and slate that I have seen in a number of the best wines this year. Very impressive. 70% new oak. 3.72 pH, 24hl/ha, 2nd year in a row with such low yields.