Pauillac · vintage 2004
Château Pichon Baron 2004
Ageing potential16-19 years
Why this vintage
- The 2004 vintage in PauillacHigh yields and a dry September gave a classic, unexaggerated vintage, straightforward, now at its peak.
- Ageing potential16-19 years
The 2004 vintage in Pauillac
Vintage benchmark: 88/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: High yields and a dry September gave a classic, unexaggerated vintage, straightforward, now at its peak.
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
This is a rigorous blend, in classic proportions, incorporating this year the particularly successful Cabernet Francs. It is a wine of great harmony with preserved fruit: blackcurrant and morello cherry. A sensation of fullness on the palate, with a fresh, fleshy, long finish, where balance is favored: integrated oak, mellow and dense tannins.
Blend of the 2004 vintage
- 65 % Cabernet-sauvignon
- 30 % Merlot
- 5 % Cabernet franc
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2004 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 2004 sheet
- 13 % vol.Alcohol
- 30 yrsVine age
- 180,000 bottlesProduction
Winemaking
In the vats, alcoholic fermentation begins: the conversion of the grape sugar into alcohol. Once alcoholic fermentation is complete, maceration continues its course in order to extract from the marc the tannins needed for a great wine.
Ageing
15 months in French oak barrels (80% new).
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 2004
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Visuals
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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.