Château Les Carmes Haut Brion
Château La Mission Haut-Brion
Pessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend 1989
Gorgeous texture and character. Dark plum and leather. Notes of stone and herb and iodine. Great length. Superb — a month ago
Château Haut-Brion
Graves Red Bordeaux Blend 1990
Great clarity and texture. Deep and impressive. Fully resolved but still powerful. Very good — a month ago
Château Haut-Brion
Le Clarence de Haut-Brion Pessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend 2009
Classic. Full-bodied. Cedar, plum, blackberries, tobacco, dark chocolate. Decanted for about six hours before the tannins settled down. — 2 months ago
Château Haut-Brion
Premier Grand Cru Classé Graves Red Bordeaux Blend 2005
Tasted blind. Pretty similar to 2 in colour , more garnet core , some ruby with a garnet rim . Slightly more closed on the nose , touch of spice , hickory , then dark fruits , grafite . On the palate this is more mineral and intense , with good volume and a ripe layer of dark fruits , quite rich and mouthfilling but with good freshness and length . Lots of cassis and grafite , some cedar , grippy tannins . Dense and quite powerful long finish . This has a lovely spiced character with an earthy finish . Still pretty young , needs a little more time , but great balance . Wait Another 5 -8 years and will last well a further 10-15. I did not put this as HB in the 30 minutes we had to study the wines , the sweet spice took me over to Mouton , with more time it was obviously so different , so I kicked myself when it was revealed as HB. My 4th placed wine . — 2 months ago
Conrad Green
This is all it’s meant to be. Great deep fruit. Some tar and tobacco and iron and gnarly pure fruit. So complex and involved. A punch of salinity and iodine on the finish. Great — 5 days ago