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Chteau Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande remains faithful to the tradition of hand

picking. Every year, over 100 people often the same families from Andalusia pick the

grapes on the estate, depending on the level of ripeness and the age of the plot: the

harvests start with Merlot, an early variety, and finish with Cabernet and Petit Verdot,

which are late varieties. Stringent sorting is carried out in the vines as well as on arrival in

the hopper.

When the harvest has been gathered, stripped and masked, the grapes are sent to the

fermenting room, where rows of heat-regulated stainless steel vats of various capacities

enable stringent, exact selection by plot to be carried out. The period spent in the vats

ranges from 18 to 24 days depending on the year. Pumping over is carried out frequently,

so as to extract as much colour and tannin as possible.

Since the late 1970s, Chteau Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande has gained a

reputation as a super second or even almost premier, due to its constant quality. The

key word in this success is selection - extremely painstaking selection from the harvestonwards, especially during blending. Blending takes place in late December or early

January, with the help of the technical team and oenologists. An initial selection produces a

Grand Vin, followed by a second wine from the next selection. Ever since the nineteenth

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