Redcurrant and berries with flowers and blood orange aromas. Full- to medium-bodied with firm and racy tannins that are polished and very long and bright. Juicy at the end. Mostly merlot (64%) as well as 29% cabernet sauvignon and the rest, cabernet franc. Better after 2027.

Looking at the 2020 Les Tourelles De Longueville from the team at Pichon-Longueville Baron, this beauty is based on 64% Merlot, 29% Cabernet Sauvignon, and the rest Cabernet Franc aged in just 30% new French oak. Ripe red and black fruits, sappy tobacco, melted chocolate, and spicy notes all emerge from this medium-bodied, round, supple, undeniably delicious Pauillac. It has the vintage’s fresher, focused style, yet there's plenty of charm here already. Drink bottles over the coming 15+ years.

Floral and aromatic, with cinnamon, cedar spices and liquorice. Chewy and plush, this is generous, open and appealing at this point, but still with a vein of focus and precision. Lots of spiced edges. Cinnamon, clove, vanilla and aniseed but also some minerality, a slightly chalkiness and minty freshness. Wide and expansive with styling and sculpting. I love the undercurrent of power, you know you're in Pauillac. Juicy core and a long finish. (Drink between 2025-2036)

The 2020 Les Tourelles de Longueville is made from 64% Merlot, 29% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 7% Cabernet Franc. Deep garnet-purple in color, it is a little broody to start off, opening with subtle notes of wild blueberries and plum preserves before giving way to hints of rose oil, Sichuan pepper, and star anise. The palate is medium-bodied, delivering mouth-coating black fruits with spicy accents and a plush texture, finishing with impressive length.

91+ The 2020 Les Tourelles de Longueville is a dark, powerful wine, with tons of textural intensity, and yet it remains pretty compact, with burly tannins that have not softened much yet. The intense heat of the year is evident in the wine's concentration and burly tannins. I would give this a few years in bottle to see what happens. - Antonio Galloni

A textbook Pauillac, with a beam of cassis and blackberry fruit laced with graphite and lightly singed alder. Feels silky and easy along the edges, but a buried iron note peeks through at the end, keeping this grounded. Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc. Drink now through 2033. 6,917 cases made.

Rich and generous, the 2020 Les Tourelles de Longueville exhibits aromas of dark berries, cigar wrapper and loamy soil, followed by a medium to full-bodied, fleshy palate. It's a giving, Merlot-driven cuvée that will drink well young. - WK