Pauillac · vintage 1989
The 1989 vintage in Pauillac
Vintage benchmark: 93/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: The uninterrupted heat of the earliest season of the century gave ripe, fleshy wines, opulent for the time and early to reach maturity.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Pauillac. An estate can depart from it sharply, in frost or hail years, where two neighbours did not make the same vintage. What this particular wine actually gave is on its technical sheet and in the scores above.
Tasting
Its color is dense, deep, with no sign of evolution. Notes of ripe fruit burst forth immediately. Black fruit, cocoa, fig, sweet spice and a candied taste give this vintage warm hues. This voluminous wine is fleshy, radiant on the palate with velvety, direct, thoroughbred tannins, still fresh. Its great length awakens the palate with charm, breeding and distinction.
Blend of the 1989 vintage
- 73 % Cabernet-sauvignon
- 27 % Merlot
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 1989 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with 62 % cabernet sauvignon, 32 % merlot, 4 % cabernet franc, 2 % petit verdot — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Figures from the 1989 sheet
- 180,000 bottlesProduction
Winemaking
Maceration temperatures ranged between 25 and 27°C. Extractions were
preferentially carried out at the height of fermentation, and daily tastings refined the length
of post-fermentation maceration.
Ageing
65% in new barrels, 35% in one-year barrels, for 15 months.
Terroir
Overlooking the Latour vineyard, the 73 ha of Domaine de Pichon Baron extend over gravelly soils of very high quality. This unique land, low in nutrients and without excess water, sparingly feeds old vine stocks whose grape production is deliberately small but of exceptional nobility. This terroir is capable of producing extraordinary wines, which the property sets out to do with excellence and consistency, respecting the original history of this vineyard. Composed of 62% Cabernet Sauvignon, 32% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot, the extensive Pichon Baron vineyard has been divided up into meticulously defined plots. The great 40 ha terroir of the Pichon Baron knoll is devoted solely to the production of the Grand Vin and today accounts for the greater part of its blend.
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Texts and documents 1989
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Visuals
For this vintage, the media library contains: packshots, labels, back labels. High-definition packshots, labels, back labels and lifestyle photos are reserved for clients and partners, on the Compagnie Médocaine’s VinCod media library.
Sheet checked on September 21, 2026. Technical data: the estate’s VinCod sheets. Critic scores: sources cited above, with their date. Vintage benchmarks and character: Compagnie Médocaine’s own editorial read. Soils and relief, where shown: the Compagnie Médocaine’s parcel survey and the Mapbox/IGN terrain model.