Château Haut-Brion - Pessac-Léognan 1er Grand Cru Classé 2020 (750ml)
Price: $853.99
| Producer | Château Haut-Brion |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Varietal | Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot |
| Vintage | 2020 |
| Sku | 66154 |
| Size | 750ml |
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Wine Advocate: 99 Points
The 2020 Haut-Brion is more aromatically demonstrative than La Mission Haut-Brion, bursting with aromas of blackberries and raspberries mingled with licorice, cigar wrapper, pencil shavings and nicely integrated new oak. Full-bodied, ample and fleshy, it's rich and layered, with an enveloping core of fruit that's girdled by plenty of sweet, powdery tannin. Despite checking in at a similarly lofty alcoholic degree to the 2019, its more granular tannic profile tempers the vintage's sweetness of fruit and lends the wine a more classically proportioned, and more classically structured, profile.
Vinous: 96 Points
The 2020 Haut-Brion has a smorgasbord of red and black fruit on the nose, Indian ink and pressed violets, touches of undergrowth (morels?) emerging with time in the glass. There is just a note of reduction here. The palate is medium-bodied with pliant tannins, fresh and saline, with hints of black olive and white pepper. A lingering, very controlled, black pepper tinged finish is very harmonious and understated remarkable given the 15% alcohol, slightly higher than La Mission. Excellent...but I am not convinced that would put it in the top tier of this First Growth..at least, not yet.
