Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande
Pauillac
M. FREDERIC ROUZAUD, MAISON DE CHAMPAGNE LOUIS ROEDERER
Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande boasts an outstanding 95-hectare terroir ideally situated in Pauillac on the banks of the Gironde Estuary.
A STORY
In few words
Despite its long, rich history, only four families have owned the emblematic Pichon Comtesse estate.
Virginie de Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande was a remarkable figure. A pioneer in what was once a male-dominated wine industry, she worked hard from the 1850s onwards to bolster the reputation of the estate’s wine and also built the château that would bear her name.
Since 2007, the Louis Roederer family-run Champagne House has injected an ambitious, innovative dynamic into the estate.
From restructuring the vineyards to fully converting the estate to organic and biodynamic methods and installing state-of-the-art winemaking facilities, every effort has been made to help the Pichon Comtesse terroir reveal its full potential and produce the finest Pauillac wines, combining elegance, balance, power and finesse
At the head
The Château Manager
Nicolas GLUMINEAU
Managing Director:
Florent GENTY
Sales Director:
THE CHATEAU
Key numbers
Surface
95 ha
Production
150,000 bottles
Geology
Garonne gravel on a clay subsoil with traces of ironpan
Grape Varieties
72 % Cabernet Sauvignon, 24 % Merlot, 3 % Cabernet Franc, 1 % Petit Verdot
Ageing
18 months in barrel
New barrels: 60%
Second wine
Pichon Comtesse Réserve
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