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The 2022 vintage in the press:

Vinous (N. Martin - January 2025): 94/100 "The 2022 Les Griffons de Pichon Baron was very impressive from barrel. Now in bottle, it has a kind of unassuming bouquet that unfolds in the glass. This is very nuanced, with hints of black truffle filtering through the black fruit and a little sous-bois. The palate is medium-bodied with pliant tannins and beautifully balanced with a fresh, slightly citric finish. I like the energy in this Les Griffons and it should age well in bottle."

J-M Quarin (February 2025): 94/100 "Intense, dark red colour. Beautiful, highly aromatic nose, with ripe, black fruit. Meticulous on the palate, with the most ethereal body I know, this wine begins by melting on the palate, then builds to a long, juicy, sappy finish, with a lovely note of petit verdot. It's good and long. It's good and long."

The 2022 vintage in the press:

Vinous (N. Martin - January 2025): 94/100 "The 2022 Les Griffons de Pichon Baron was very impressive from barrel. Now in bottle, it has a kind of unassuming bouquet that unfolds in the glass. This is very nuanced, with hints of black truffle filtering through the black fruit and a little sous-bois. The palate is medium-bodied with pliant tannins and beautifully balanced with a fresh, slightly citric finish. I like the energy in this Les Griffons and it should age well in bottle."

J-M Quarin (February 2025): 94/100 "Intense, dark red colour. Beautiful, highly aromatic nose, with ripe, black fruit. Meticulous on the palate, with the most ethereal body I know, this wine begins by melting on the palate, then builds to a long, juicy, sappy finish, with a lovely note of petit verdot. It's good and long. It's good and long."

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 - November 2024): 91/100 “The 2020 Les Griffons de Pichon Baron has an open-knit and expressive nose, a mixture of red and black fruit, quite elegant and developing appealing floral scents. The palate is medium-bodied, cohesive and persistent, with fleshy, ripe black ad hints of white pepper.”

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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."

Vinous (A. Galloni - March 2021): 93/100 "The 2018 Les Griffons de Pichon Baron is a heady, wild Pauillac. An exotic mélange of inky black fruit, chocolate, spice, grilled herbs, espresso and new oak gives the Griffons its extroverted personality. The tannins need a bit of time to soften, but there is plenty to look forward to. This is an especially dense, rich Pauillac."

The 2016 is like the great wine: pure and vigorous, distinguished and powerful, promised to be beautiful and long to keep.

The 2016 vintage in the press:

Vinous (A. Galloni - December 2018): 91/100 "The 2016 Les Griffons de Pichon Baron is quite powerful and dense. Aging, and specifically, the barrel regime of 18 months in oak (60% new) has left the 2016 with a heavy toast/torrefaction quality that at present overpowers the dark fruit and Cabernet aromatics the wine showed from barrel."

The 2022 vintage in the press:

Vinous (A. Galloni - January 2025): 98/100 "The 2022 Pichon Baron is one of the most elegant, polished wines I have ever tasted here. Silky and refined, the 2022 is super-impressive right out of the gate. The aromatics alone are mesmerizing. Blood orange, herbs and floral notes lend notable delineation to a core of Cabernet Sauvignon fruit. As I did en primeur, I find the wine's balance nothing short of exquisite. There's more freshness and vibrancy here than in the past, along with a noticeably lower oak imprint and more sensual tannins that lend notable sophistication throughout. The Grand Vin spent 16 months in French oak barreks, 70% new, and then two months in wood cats prior to bottling."

J-M Quarin (February 2025): 99/100 "Black colour, intense and lively. The nose starts off a little subdued, before developing in the glass, fine, subtle, deep and complex. Nuances of black fruit and spices. Full-bodied from the outset, then immediately dense, with a fine fatness that runs across the palate combined with an exuberant black fruit flavour, the wine evolves serenely over a noble yet tight tannic structure. Great complex persistence. A great, powerful Pichon Baron, with a rare mellowness. For the moment, the best ever made with the 2016."

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.”

Vinous (A. Galloni - December 2023): 96/100 “Dark and brooding in bearing, the 2021 Pichon Baron is a somber, mysterious wine. It is every bit as impressive as it was en primeur. Graphite, leather, spice, mocha and dried herbs meld together in a wine of power, precision and contemporary classicism. It's one of my early favorites in this vintage. I won't be too surprised if it turns out even than this note suggests.”

The 2016 vintage in the press:

Vinous (N. Martin - January 2020): 93+/100 "The 2016 Pichon Baron has a powerful, menthol-scented bouquet that almost overwhelms the senses. This comes across richer than its peers, almost heady in style. The palate is medium-bodied with thick tannins, layers of rich black fruit laced with pencil lead and a dash of white pepper. An extravagant Pauillac with an uncharacteristically hedonistic finish. Superb, but I have had better bottles."

La Revue du Vin de France (2018): 97/100 “monumental.”

The 2010 vintage in the press:

Vinous (N. Martin - February 2020): 96/100 "The 2010 Pichon-Baron is simply one of the greatest wines produced under Christian Seely's tenure. It has a stunning bouquet with penetrating black fruit, wilted violet and a touch of sea spray, a distinctive marine note verging on shucked oyster shells. The palate is very well balanced with fine grain tannins, layers pf graphite infused black fruit and a very detailed, captivating finish. Brilliant."