Jan-Erik Paulson, semi-retired from his fine-wine company Rare Wine, has offered to share with us his experience of verticals of seriously mature bordeaux. We kick off with an account of Ch Pichon-Longueville (as Ch Pichon Baron used to be called) back to an 1864 produced by both Pichons.
My tasting notes are partly from a tasting I organised together with Dr Peter Baumann in Austria in 1998. We tasted 40 vintages and Jean-Michel Cazes was the guest of honour. Other more recent notes have been added to these.
I had a bottle of 1864 a few years ago. The handwritten...