Description
Château Picon “Cuvée Louis” Bordeaux Supérieur, grown on the left bank of the Dordogne river near Sainte-Foy-La-Grande, 20 minutes upstream from Saint-Émilion, vintage 2018. NEW TO TOB.
20% Cabernet Sauvignon and the balance is Merlot. 50% new oak, 50% one-year-old barrels.
DECANT!
Hold onto your hats! This is Bordeaux but not as we know it: very dark colour, exuberant if not explosive fruit power with full-on complexity – earth, oak, plum pudding, tobacco – but the palate’s where the party is with rich full body and lashings of tannin that melt into mature, mouth-filling softness. This is a titanic red entering its prime. So open, upfront, and decadently drinkable as to be almost “anti-traditional-Bordeaux” in style. Ludicrously good value-for-money. Best served from a decanter, with rich food, as this is a monster wine.
Drink now to 2026