![]() Despite the eye-catching price level, it is only 1.4% above the price suggested by Liv-ex’s ‘fair-value’ methodology.īuyers unconvinced by this release might be interested in the value offered by the 2015, which can be purchased at a 22.5% discount to today’s opening price. As powerful and potent as one could possibly wish, yet a wine of extraordinary poise and composition, the 2016 Lalande delivers an absolute wealth of concise and beautifully focused, ripe currant fruit with layer upon layer of savory pencil-lead spice, creamy oak, minerals and tobacco-leaf extras. Pichon Lalande 2016 is entering the market as the highest scoring and most expensive of all recent vintages. ![]() Prices for Pichon Lalande are closely correlated to critic scores (Wine Advocate). Chteau Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande Rserve (de la Comtesse) Pauillac 2016. Neal Martin awarded the wine a score of 96-98 points, commenting that “this is probably just a notch up on the outstanding 2015 Pichon-Lalande, a Rolls Royce with a purring engine.” James Suckling, who scored the wine 96-97 points, also wondered whether it was “better than 2015?”. ![]() It is being offered by the international trade at £1,420 per 12×75, up 42.7% in sterling terms on the 2015 release price of £995 per case.Ĭritics have been effusive in their praise of this year’s Pichon Lalande. The 2016 is a vivid, dramatically sweeping wine that will leave readers week at the knees. Towering and spectacularly rich in the glass, the 2016 captures every ounce of potential is showed from barrel. Pichon Lalande has been released at €120 per bottle ex-negociant, a 25% increase on 2015 release price of €96. 100 Points, Antonio Galloni, Vinous: 'The 2016 Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande is every bit as regal as it has always been.
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