Chateau Pibran 2017

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Vintage
2017

Size
750ML

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Somm Note

Winemaker Notes

Blend: 68% Merlot, 32% Cabernet Sauvignon

Professional Ratings

  • 92
    With a higher-than-usual percentage of Merlot, this wine offers layers of ripe black fruit flavors. It has a rounded feel, with generous fruits and intense acidity. Overall, it is soft and full on the palate.
    Barrel Sample: 90-92
  • 92

    Based mostly on Merlot (68%), the 2017 Chateau Pibran reveals a ruby/purple hue as well as terrific notes of damp earth, tobacco leaf, chocolate, and black cherry and currant fruits. Beautifully textured, medium to full-bodied, and balanced, it's a terrific 2017 that's already hard to resist. Drink it over the coming 10-15 years or more.

  • 91

    Shows a woodsy edge, with hints of cedar and alder peeking in on the core of gently mulled plum and red currant fruit. Iron and tobacco details fill in on the finish, with the woodsy side lingering. Features enough fruit for balance, but remains a bit shy on precision in the end. Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon. Best from 2022 through 2036.

  • 91

    Medium to deep garnet-purple colored, the 2017 Pibran gives up notes of redcurrant jelly, baked plum and blackcurrant cordial with ints of stewed tea, fragrant earth and new leather. Medium-bodied, the palate has great vibrancy, with bags of crunchy fruit and a soft texture, finishing with lovely purity.

  • 90

    Aromas of flowers, currants and raspberries follow through to a medium body, tight and creamy tannins and attractive, cool fruit. A little short at the finish. But nicely crafted. Drink in 2021 and onwards.


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Chateau Pibran

Chateau Pibran

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Chateau Pibran, France
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Chateau Pibran estate benefits from a prestigious, 17-hectare terroir on one of Pauillac’s most beautiful hilltops.

The wines benefit from exceptional support, with the vinification process and technical monitoring both carried out by the Chateau Pichon Baron team.

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One of the world’s most classic and popular styles of red wine, Bordeaux-inspired blends have spread from their homeland in France to nearly every corner of the New World. Typically based on either Cabernet Sauvignon or Merlot and supported by Cabernet Franc, Malbec and Petit Verdot, the best of these are densely hued, fragrant, full of fruit and boast a structure that begs for cellar time. Somm Secret—Blends from Bordeaux are generally earthier compared to those from the New World, which tend to be fruit-dominant.

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The leader on the Left Bank in number of first growth classified producers within its boundaries, Pauillac has more than any of the other appellations, at three of the five. Chateau Lafite Rothschild and Mouton Rothschild border St. Estephe on its northern end and Chateau Latour is at Pauillac’s southern end, bordering St. Julien.

While the first growths are certainly some of the better producers of the Left Bank, today they often compete with some of the “lower ranked” producers (second, third, fourth, fifth growth) in quality and value. The Left Bank of Bordeaux subscribes to an arguably outdated method of classification that goes back to 1855. The finest chateaux in that year were judged on the basis of reputation and trading price; changes in rank since then have been miniscule at best. Today producers such as Chateau Pontet-Canet, Chateau Grand Puy-Lacoste, Chateau Lynch-Bages, among others (all fifth growth) offer some of the most outstanding wines in all of Bordeaux.

Defining characteristics of fine wines from Pauillac (i.e. Cabernet-based Bordeaux Blends) include inky and juicy blackcurrant, cedar or cigar box and plush or chalky tannins.

Layers of gravel in the Pauillac region are key to its wines’ character and quality. The layers offer excellent drainage in the relatively flat topography of the region allowing water to run off into “jalles” or streams, which subsequently flow off into the Gironde.

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