1850 - Virginie de Pichon Longueville, Comtesse de Lalande, and her sisters inherited 30 hectares of one of Bordeaux’s greatest wine estates, founded by Pierre de Rauzan in 1689 and owned by the Pichon Longueville family since 1694. She built the Château that bears her name.
1855 - Baron Joseph’s efforts were recognized in the imperial classification, commissioned by Napoleon III for the Paris Universal Exhibition, where Château Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande was ranked as a Second Grand Cru Classé.
1925 - The birth of a new era with the Miailhe family. From the 1980s onwards, under the impetus of May Eliane de Lenquesaing, a tireless ambassador for the entire region, Pichon Comtesse joined the inner circle of iconic Bordeaux Grands Crus thanks to the quality of its wines and global reputation.
2007 - Champagne Louis Roederer, a family-owned company managed by Frédéric Rouzaud, purchased the estate. The third family in three centuries now presides over the destiny of Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande, with the aim of perpetuating the excellence of this great Pauillac wine.
The land
The Médoc stretches north of Bordeaux, nestled between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gironde Estuary.
A remarkable region with particularly poor soils, consisting of gravel rises on clay subsoil. These light, well-drained soils, resulting from the slow drop in water levels during the Quaternary period, provide ideal conditions for the vines to reveal the outstanding quality of the terroir, under the protective influence of a highly favorable microclimate.
The vineyard
Pichon Comtesse has 102 hectares under vine in a privileged location, a stone’s throw from the Gironde Estuary, in the southern part of the Pauillac appellation. Comprising over 100 vineyard plots, it gives pride of place to the star grape variety of the Médoc, Cabernet-Sauvignon, alongside the other emblematic Bordeaux varieties: Merlot, of course, as well as Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot.
Source: Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande website
Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande
France
Bordeaux
1995
Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc , and Petit Verdot
75cl
13%
16ºC - 18ºC
