2025 Haut Brion Blanc

Auslieferung bis zum Herbst 2028!
Delivery until Fall 2028!

The 2025 Haut-Brion Blanc shimmies out with energetic notes of lime cordial, fresh grapefruit, and lemon curd, leading to suggestions of orange blossoms, sea spray, and yuzu zest with a touch of struck flint. The full-bodied palate is so satiny and seductive with electric citrus fruit flavors and minerally accents, finishing very long and fragrant. Magic. The blend is 53% Sauvignon Blanc and 47% Sémillon. The alcohol is 14.55%. It was aged in French oak barrels (45% new). This was tasted as a bottled wine.
98/100 Lisa Perrotti-Brown

(Pessac-Léognan; 53% Sauvignon Blanc; 47% Sémillon; final yield of 23 hl/ha; pH 3.3; 14.5% alcohol; tasted at La Mission Haut-Brion). Tasted alongside La Mission blanc, this has a little more intensity, despite the lower proportion of Sémillon in the blend, it's more viscous too and the fruit less ample in frame and there's more depth to its layering. This is more serious and perhaps less ethereal in a way, but it has a staggering complexity. The aromatics are sublime, with a vivid mimosa florality that brings a sense of verticality and an aerial dimension that is stupefying. The fruits are a shade more exotic - with guava and mango alongside passionflower, but also elderberry and elderflower. The balancing contrast comes just as much from the cool whetstone minerality as from the diversity of the zesty citrus elements. A remarkable wine and one that changes in the glass each time you return to it.
96-98/100 Colin Hay

Things are revving up here, totally humming, coming in for a strong finish, right up there as the best dry white of the vintage, layered with stone fruits, gorgeous texture, orange peel and liquorice. Well structured, muscular even as a white wine, with waves of fennel and bitter anis notes that add focus and draw out the closing minutes. Excellent quality. Harvest August 14 to 21. 45% new oak, 23hl/ha yield, 3.31ph.
97/100 Jane Anson