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Owned by AXA Millésimes since 1987, Domaine de l'Arlot spans 15 hectares between Nuits-Saint-Georges (Prémeaux) and Vosne-Romanée. This is an estate of excellence, producing some of the most intense, precise whites on the Côte de Nuits, as well as dense reds with chiselled structures that are simultaneously fleshy and delicate. Rated three stars in the Revue du Vin de France guide.
In the commune of Preignac, Suduiraut offers a wine that reflects its geographical position: halfway between Sauternes and Barsac. The latest vintages are dazzling in terms of contained power and aromatic distinction.
According to Bettane & Desseauve (Guide 2025), “Yquem is the only wine that can still do a little better”.
The 2020 vintage in the press:
La Revue du Vin de France (Guide 2025): 95/100 “the 2020, pure, ample, deep, deploying the characteristic foundation of the cru but more compact in the expression of its form as well as its aromas.”
La Revue du Vin de France (December 2023) : 97/100 “The 2020 flirts with exotic, lychee-like fruit. Sweet, unctuous yet full-bodied and energetic, it has abundant liqueur but is perfectly assimilated into an elegant, deep body. A pure delight.”
Bettane et Desseauve (Guide 2024) : 93/100
In the commune of Preignac, Suduiraut offers a wine that reflects its geographical position: halfway between Sauternes and Barsac. The latest vintages are dazzling in terms of contained power and aromatic distinction.
According to Bettane & Desseauve (Guide 2025), “Yquem is the only wine that can still do a little better”.
The 2019 vintage in the press:
Bettane et Desseauve (Guide 2024): 94/100
La Revue du Vin de France: 98/100 “Its sweetness grows the wine through its grace. Its generous liqueur is balanced by the sensation of concentrated reason.”
J-M Quarin: 94/100 “Sunshine yellow color. Very aromatic, fruity, subtle, complex and noble nose.”
In the commune of Preignac, Suduiraut offers a wine that reflects its geographical position: halfway between Sauternes and Barsac. The latest vintages are dazzling in terms of contained power and aromatic distinction.
According to Bettane & Desseauve (Guide 2025), “Yquem is the only wine that can still do a little better”.
The 2018 vintage in the press:
Vinous (N. Martin-April 2021): 95/100 “The palate is very well balanced with a harmonious entry, well-judged acidity and great tension thanks to a bitter orange peel note that counterbalances the rich, honeyed fruit on the finish. Superb”.
La Revue du Vin de France (November 2021): 96/100 “The substance is deep, but more powerful than fleshy, even if the liqueur is abundant. A Sauternes with thickness but also magnificent length [...] This wine, whose richness may surprise in youth, will age admirably well.”
In the commune of Preignac, Suduiraut offers a wine that reflects its geographical position: halfway between Sauternes and Barsac. The latest vintages are dazzling in terms of contained power and aromatic distinction.
According to Bettane & Desseauve (Guide 2025), “Yquem is the only wine that can still do a little better”.
The 2016 vintage in the press:
Described as “masterful” and rated 19/20 by Revue du Vin de France.
J-M Quarin (September 2021): 93/100 “Intense, fine, subtle nose of pure, ripe fruit. Delicate on entry, mellow in the middle, melting.”
Ideally located on the Mouton plateau, next to prestigious crus classés such as d'Armailhac, Clerc-Milon and Pontet-Canet, Pibran is owned by the insurance company AXA and benefits from the expertise of the technical team of Pichon-Baron (same owner). There are only a few unclassified wines left in Pauillac, and Pibran is by far the best of them!
The 2018 vintage in the press:
Vinous (A. Galloni - March 2021): 93/100 “The 2018 Pibran is fabulous, just as it was en primeur. Juicy, rich and expansive in this vintage, the Pibran offers tremendous richness and verve. It is also delicious and shameless."
Ideally located on the Mouton plateau, next to prestigious crus classés such as d'Armailhac, Clerc-Milon and Pontet-Canet, Pibran is owned by the insurance company AXA and benefits from the expertise of the technical team of Pichon-Baron (same owner). There are only a few unclassified wines left in Pauillac, and Pibran is by far the best of them!
While Pibran wines generally have a fleshy body and a bright fruit, the 2016 vintage transcends these qualities. It is considered as the best ever made by Jean-Marc Quarin and Neal Martin.
Ideally located on the Mouton plateau, next to prestigious crus classés such as d'Armailhac, Clerc-Milon and Pontet-Canet, Pibran is owned by the insurance company AXA and benefits from the expertise of the technical team of Pichon-Baron (same owner). There are only a few unclassified wines left in Pauillac, and Pibran is by far the best of them!
The 2014 vintage in the press:
La Revue du Vin de France (Guide 2018): Coup de ♥ “Very beautiful elegance, with a full and greedy side at the same time.”
New denomination of the second wine of Pichon-Baron from the 2012 vintage, undoubtedly at the level of the 5th growths of Pauillac.
The 2021 vintage in the press:
La Revue du Vin de France (Guide 2025): 93/100 “Les Griffons approaches the spirit of a great wine and receives a significant contribution of petit verdot, which lends depth, sapidity and a great deal of class to this cuvée.”
New denomination of the second wine of Pichon-Baron from the 2012 vintage, undoubtedly at the level of the 5th growths of Pauillac.
The 2020 vintage in the press:
La Revue du Vin de France (Guide 2024): 93/100 “Les Griffons, in which Merlot accounts for 50% of the blend, is even more refined and precise, with a crystalline quality. It benefits from perfectly calibrated ageing, serving explosive fruit.”
Vinous (N. Martin - December 2022): 93/100 “Les Griffons de Pichon Baron 2020 contains the Petit Verdot previously blended with Les Tourelles. The nose is intense, with graphite and chalk notes on black fruits, touches of black olive compote emerging with time, all with wonderful delineation. The palate is medium-bodied with fairly firm, saturated tannins, very pure, precise and balanced. The grip is gentle and the finish is bright and citrus-fresh, with blue fruit notes on the finish.”
New denomination of the second wine of Pichon-Baron from the 2012 vintage, undoubtedly at the level of the 5th growths of Pauillac.
The 2018 vintage in the press:
La Revue du Vin de France (November 2021): 93/100 “This cabernet-sauvignon-dominant cuvée offers admirable uprightness and great potential. It rises to the level of a classified growth, in the very spirit of a great wine. With great definition and tannic nobility on the finish, it's set for over 10 years.”
En Magnum (April 2021): 94/100 “Perfect balance in this sunny year, elegant and precise in its rendering of terroir. A model of its kind in keeping with the ambitions displayed by Axa Millésimes for this second classified growth of Pauillac. Under the impetus of Christian Seely and Jean-René Matignon, the estate is at the top of its game, and has produced a griffon that is unstoppable, suitable for ageing and already very good."
New denomination of the second wine of Pichon-Baron from the 2012 vintage, undoubtedly at the level of the 5th growths of Pauillac.
The 2016 is like the great wine: pure and vigorous, distinguished and powerful, promised to be beautiful and long to keep.
Bought in 1986 by the AXA group, initially under the leadership of Mr. Cazes (Lynch-Bages), Pichon-Longueville Baron regained its best form in the powerful and distinguished style of the great Pauillac. It must be said that a small half of its vines are located next to those of Latour, on a first growth terroir! For the Revue du Vin de France: "Pichon-Baron is at the top in the last vintages".
The 2021 vintage in the press:
La Revue du Vin de France (Guide 2025): 96/100 “It has digested its ageing admirably and is endowed with a luminous, radiant body, with lots of rebounding flavors on the palate.”
Bought in 1986 by the AXA group, initially under the leadership of Mr. Cazes (Lynch-Bages), Pichon-Longueville Baron regained its best form in the powerful and distinguished style of the great Pauillac. It must be said that a small half of its vines are located next to those of Latour, on a first growth terroir! For the Revue du Vin de France: "Pichon-Baron is at the top in the last vintages".
The 2018 vintage in the press:
En Magnum (April 2021): 98/100 “Great color, great generosity of substance, absolute ripeness of the grape, noble cedar flavor, assertive solar character, but without imbalance. Baron is true to itself, undeniably Pauillac."
La Revue du Vin de France (Guide 2021): 97/100 “Superb matter, concentrated, energetic and deep. Impresses with its length and persistent aromas.”
Bought in 1986 by the AXA group, initially under the leadership of Mr. Cazes (Lynch-Bages), Pichon-Longueville Baron regained its best form in the powerful and distinguished style of the great Pauillac. It must be said that a small half of its vines are located next to those of Latour, on a first growth terroir! For the Revue du Vin de France: "Pichon-Baron is at the top in the last vintages".
The 2017 vintage in the press:
J-M Quarin (October 2020): 96/100 “Dark, intense and beautiful color. Very aromatic nose, fruity, creamy and slightly truffled. Meticulous on entry, refined to the touch, very aromatic, the wine develops on a graceful general bearing. It melts in the finish, fragrant, long, sappy and very good”.
Vinous (A. Galloni - March 2020): 94+/100“The 2017 Pichon-Baron has become a powerful wine, even by its own standards. Black cherry, plum, chocolate, grilled herbs, licorice, new leather and spices blossom in a succulent Pauillac that shows the racy personality of the year.”
Bought in 1986 by the AXA group, initially under the leadership of Mr. Cazes (Lynch-Bages), Pichon-Longueville Baron regained its best form in the powerful and distinguished style of the great Pauillac. It must be said that a small half of its vines are located next to those of Latour, on a first growth terroir! For the Revue du Vin de France: "Pichon-Baron is at the top in the last vintages".
The 2016 vintage in the press:
La Revue du Vin de France (2018): 97/100 “monumental.”
Bought in 1986 by the AXA group, initially under the leadership of Mr. Cazes (Lynch-Bages), Pichon-Longueville Baron regained its best form in the powerful and distinguished style of the great Pauillac. It must be said that a small half of its vines are located next to those of Latour, on a first growth terroir! For the Revue du Vin de France: "Pichon-Baron is at the top in the last vintages".
Owned by AXA Millésimes since 1987, Domaine de l'Arlot spans 15 hectares between Nuits-Saint-Georges (Prémeaux) and Vosne-Romanée. This is an estate of excellence, producing some of the most intense, precise whites on the Côte de Nuits, as well as dense reds with chiselled structures that are simultaneously fleshy and delicate. Rated three stars in the Revue du Vin de France guide.
Owned by AXA Millésimes since 1987, Domaine de l'Arlot spans 15 hectares between Nuits-Saint-Georges (Prémeaux) and Vosne-Romanée. This is an estate of excellence, producing some of the most intense, precise whites on the Côte de Nuits, as well as dense reds with chiselled structures that are simultaneously fleshy and delicate. Rated three stars in the Revue du Vin de France guide.
Owned by AXA Millésimes since 1987, Domaine de l'Arlot spans 15 hectares between Nuits-Saint-Georges (Prémeaux) and Vosne-Romanée. This is an estate of excellence, producing some of the most intense, precise whites on the Côte de Nuits, as well as dense reds with chiselled structures that are simultaneously fleshy and delicate. Rated three stars in the Revue du Vin de France guide.
The 2022 vintage in the press:
Bourgogne Aujourd'hui (August 2023): 16/20 “Notes of flowers and raspberries on the nose. Beautiful texture on the palate with elegant tannins and a saline touch on the finish.”
Owned by AXA Millésimes since 1987, Domaine de l'Arlot spans 15 hectares between Nuits-Saint-Georges (Prémeaux) and Vosne-Romanée. This is an estate of excellence, producing some of the most intense, precise whites on the Côte de Nuits, as well as dense reds with chiselled structures that are simultaneously fleshy and delicate. Rated three stars in the Revue du Vin de France guide.
Owned by AXA Millésimes since 1987, Domaine de l'Arlot spans 15 hectares between Nuits-Saint-Georges (Prémeaux) and Vosne-Romanée. This is an estate of excellence, producing some of the most intense, precise whites on the Côte de Nuits, as well as dense reds with chiselled structures that are simultaneously fleshy and delicate. Rated three stars in the Revue du Vin de France guide.
Owned by AXA Millésimes since 1987, Domaine de l'Arlot spans 15 hectares between Nuits-Saint-Georges (Prémeaux) and Vosne-Romanée. This is an estate of excellence, producing some of the most intense, precise whites on the Côte de Nuits, as well as dense reds with chiselled structures that are simultaneously fleshy and delicate. Rated three stars in the Revue du Vin de France guide.
Owned by AXA Millésimes since 1987, Domaine de l'Arlot spans 15 hectares between Nuits-Saint-Georges (Prémeaux) and Vosne-Romanée. This is an estate of excellence, producing some of the most intense, precise whites on the Côte de Nuits, as well as dense reds with chiselled structures that are simultaneously fleshy and delicate. Rated three stars in the Revue du Vin de France guide.
Owned by AXA Millésimes since 1987, Domaine de l'Arlot spans 15 hectares between Nuits-Saint-Georges (Prémeaux) and Vosne-Romanée. This is an estate of excellence, producing some of the most intense, precise whites on the Côte de Nuits, as well as dense reds with chiselled structures that are simultaneously fleshy and delicate. Rated three stars in the Revue du Vin de France guide.
The 2022 vintage in the press:
Hachette (Guide 2025) : Coup de coeur ♥ « A 2022 that touches perfection. We immediately love its nose, as subtle as it is complex, evoking flowers, fresh red fruit, blackcurrant and cocoa. An elegance echoed by a sumptuous palate, very pure, very long, loose, carried by tannins of rare finesse and enhanced by a hint of minerality that adds to its dynamism. »
Vinous (Neal Martin - novembre 2023) : 96-98/100 « The palate is velvety on entry with impressive depth and a soft grip. It has a fascinating purity of fruit, intense to the point where you can almost overlook the filigree tannins. It unfolds magnificently on the lingering finish, a top-class Romanée-Saint-Vivant. »
Bourgogne Aujourd'hui (Septembre 2023) : 16/20 « The palate is ripe, supple, with fine balance and finesse. A wine for the future... »