2024 Haut Brion Rouge

Auslieferung bis zum Herbst 2027!
Delivery until Fall 2027!

Medium to full intensity, takes its time to open, this is carefully built, slow and steady in its expression, textured, restrained, cocoa bean, espresso, redcurrant, orchard, sage, bilberry. Very much a classical style of Haut-Brion that will I am sure give great pleasure after a decade in bottle - not as monumental as some, but don't count this out - there are all the bones of this exceptional wine, and the tannic architecture will widen over ageing. 1.7% press, 75% new oak, 26hl/h yield, Jean-Pierre Masclef technical director and Jean-Pierre Delmas estate director.
94/100 Jane Anson

(Pessac-Léognan; 47.2% Cabernet Sauvignon; 37.5% Merlot; 15.3% Cabernet Franc; a final yield across the two estates of 26 hl/ha for the reds here; pH 3.70; c. 13.2% alcohol; 1.7% press wine). Delicate, again, and intensely floral – with ethereal, subtle but sustained and ultimately quite intense violet and fresh rose petal notes enrobing the soft, plush and plump cherry and dark berry fruits. Ample, again, much like La Mission on the attack with, again, a broad frame. At first one does not notice the tannins, but they become more and more of a presence, descending as if vertically like fine beads of shower spray, pixilating the wine. Not quite the complexity of the greatest vintages from here, accentuated in a way by the ample frame. The élévage will be very important.
93-95/100 Colin Hay; The Drinks Business

Deep garnet-purple colored. Needs a lot of shaking to wake up scents of crushed black currants, red currant jelly, and boysenberries, followed by hints of Sichuan pepper, garrigue, and crushed rocks. The medium-bodied palate has a firm texture of ripe, fine-grained tannins and great freshness framing the tightly wound, mineral-laced fruits, finishing on a lingering ferrous note.
95-97/100 Lisa Perrotti-Brown; The Wine Independent