2025 Haut Brion Rouge

Auslieferung bis zum Herbst 2028!
Delivery until Fall 2028!

(Pessac-Léognan; 60% Merlot; 28.2% Cabernet Sauvignon; 11.8% Cabernet Franc; a final yield of 26 hl/ha; 13.5% alcohol; tasted at La Mission Haut-Brion). The fruit profile is a little lighter in hue than for La Mission, with raspberry and loganberry present alongside the dark cherries and, again, blueberry notes. This is maybe a little more floral, with a slightly more bulby florality - iris and peony perhaps. It's softer still in the cashmere/velour density of the mid-palate, almost a little pillowy in texture. So succulent, so glossy and so harmonious and balanced. This is slightly more classical and succulent, more elegant and finessed that the perhaps more essential La Mission Haut-Brion. It's grand, majesterial and more opulent in a way.
97-99/100 Colin Hay

To taste Château Haut-Brion 2025 is to turn the pages of a novel shaped by the tides of time, where lives rise and fall, and where beauty, solitude, desire, and fate are quietly gathered into a single glass. It moves as a restrained force held deep within, and like a river in constant flow, carrying a quiet undercurrent of emotion and a dreamlike landscape in full bloom. Water lily, mulberry, and tamarind unfold in soft succession, touched by a thread of agarwood, leading the senses further inward, each step opening new spaces for imagination. The violet note moves beyond the realm of simple florals, taking on a regal presence that reflects and amplifies the wine’s expanding sense of depth. The 2025 vintage is destined to become a defining chapter in the history of Château Haut-Brion, and may well stand, in time, alongside the great 1989.
99-100/100 Alexandre Ma

Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2025 Haut-Brion slowly emerges from the glass with powerful notes of ripe plums and fresh blueberries, plus hints of red cherries, licorice, and cardamom with wafts of violets and iron ore. Medium-bodied, the palate is both elegant and intense with firm, fine-grained tannins and a refreshing line, finishing on a lingering ferrous note. The blend is 62% Merlot, 26.2% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 11.8% Cabernet Franc. The alcohol is 13.05%. This is aging in French oak barrels, 59% new. The pH is 3.7.
96-98/100 Lisa Perrotti-Brown

Such a taut, slate-strewn journey through the palate here, slow burn, love it. An exceptional Haut-Brion, with beautiful toasted cumin and sandalwood notes, cloves, cassis, pomegranate and cocoa beans. Muscular, structured, brooding, this is going to run and run. 59% new oak. 27hl/ha yield. Alcohols among lowest on record, and yet intensely concenrated. 3.72ph Harvest September 1 to 18. 59% new oak. 62% of production in this 1st wine.
97/100 Jane Anson