This wine will always be a profound memory. The bouquet is pure, still sappily youthful and oh, so promising, soaring from the glass in a blend of sweet dark berries, a hint of plumminess, menthol, cigar smoke, coffee bean. We have only three bottles left out of the 2 cases I purchased 15/18 years ago. Along with the magical 1982, this is my favorite vintage of Pichon-Lalande from what must be its most successful overall decade in its long and illustrious history. Last night we enjoyed a really velvety, silky, smooth, and finely sweet, bottle of 1982 Pichon Lalande at our anniversary dinner. How much longer can it hold onto its magic? My guess is that it should be consumed over the next 5-7 years. It has been delicious since birth, but absolutely stupendous over the last decade. The bottle on this night was in pristine form. I would argue the PL was the wine of the vintage. 1959 Pichon Lalande (vintage is not shown on label, identifiable on the cork).

I have been privileged to have drunk all the top 82 BDX over the years. Unctuously-textured and full-bodied, with low acidity, fabulously sweet, rich fruit, surprising definition for a wine of such lushness and intensity, this is one of the vintage's most compelling and profound efforts. 1982 Pichon Lalande 1 by Kelly Walker » Sat 5:50 pm Had an impromptu gathering of a few wine buddies last night. Spectacular aromatics offer up cedar, smoke, jammy black and red fruits, minerals, licorice, and toast. Seamless and complete, Id choose a pristine bottle of the 1982 Pichon Lalande over any of the Pauillac first growths, and Im trying to ration my remaining half-dozen bottles without much success. Nevertheless, it remains a brilliant, benchmark wine that continues to give a great deal of pleasure. Resembling the Mouton in structure, but with sweeter fruit on the palate, a little bit less concentration and slightly less precision in the tannins. The color is a dark plum/ruby with amber at the edge. 975.00 Quantity to Purchase: Description: Qty2 Size750 ml, RP 98 'Whilst I enjoyed several bona fide perfect examples of the 1982 Château Pichon Lalande in the late nineties, my most recent encounters imply that these years were its peak. Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande came third in the 1982 tasting. It is a fully mature, sumptuous, gloriously perfumed, luxuriously rich Pauillac the likes of which are rarely encountered.

I have had this wine a half-dozen times over the last eleven months, and have rated it either 98, 99, or 100 on every occasion. Bordeaux and its best! I can't say it any better than Robert M.

1982 pichon lalande