{"id":10666,"date":"2014-10-22T09:35:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T09:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=10666"},"modified":"2014-10-22T09:35:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T09:35:25","slug":"les-griffons-de-pichon-baron-2012-a-serious-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/bordeaux\/les-griffons-de-pichon-baron-2012-a-serious-effort","title":{"rendered":"Les Griffons de Pichon Baron 2012, a serious effort"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Griffons<\/p>\n

This is a super wine. It’s a new launch from Bordeaux superstar Pichon Baron. Christian Seely describes it thus: ‘It is a second wine, made from grapes from the intermediate parcels that might sometimes make it into the Grand Vin, sometimes into Tourelles [previously regarded as Pichon’s second wine]. Les Tourelles itself comes mostly from a specific terroir called St Anne.’ If I’d been tasting this blind, I wouldn’t have thought of it as a second wine at all.<\/p>\n

Les Griffons de Pichon Baron 2012 Pauillac, Bordeaux, France<\/strong>
\n13% alcohol. Lovely focused sweet blackcurrant fruit nose with freshness and a subtle sappy, gravelly edge. Very pure and alluring but not in the slightest bit over-ripe. Pure, clean, refined palate with blackcurrant and black cherry fruit. Real focus and harmony. A brilliant expression of Pauillac that’s not trying too hard, and has lovely freshness and the sort of structure that makes you think this could be a good bet for mid- to long-term cellaring. I really like the freshness here. 94\/100<\/p>\n

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