Château Haut-Bages Libéral
Pauillac de Haut-Bages Libéral
Pauillac, Médoc, Bordeaux, France
We had this at our wedding reception in Cortona out of magnum. Ten in memory. 💒 🌹❤️🍷
The fruit/wine in 750ml is better tonight than the magnum we had in 2007. I love 80’s Bordeaux for the style of that decade and 12-13% ABV. Fruit is beyond still fresh & floral. 35 years later in bottle! For me, 86 was a seminal vintage. The wine is 94-95 on the palate. Storage on this secondary market purchase was perfect.
Ripe, floral and hints of pruny; blackberries, black raspberries, plum, raspberries, dark cherries, poached strawberries, rhubarb notes & hovering blue fruits. Perfect, sweet lead pencils for days, sandy top soil, powdery limestone, dry river stone, perfectly, softened, dark spice box, cigar box, sandalwood, American, moist tobacco, used leather, dry dates & figs, sun tea, cherry cola/licorice, black rich earth with dry leaves, dry herbs-sage/bay leaves, nutmeg, cinnamon, vanillin, dark, red, blue, purple bouquet, insane acidity, with stunning evolution/integration, excellent, balance, still intense structure with a polished finish for days…wire to wire beautiful with phenomenal length & polish that seems endless. This bottle would hold another 5 years.
Sofia, love you & miss you every second of every day.
We had this at our wedding reception in Cortona out of magnum. Ten in memory. 💒 🌹❤️🍷
The fruit/wine in 750ml is better tonight than the magnum we had in 2007. I love 80’s Bordeaux for the style of that decade and 12-13% ABV. Fruit is beyond still fresh & floral. 35 years later in bottle! For me, 86 was a seminal vintage. The wine is 94-95 on the palate. Storage on this secondary market purchase was perfect.
Ripe, floral and hints of pruny; blackberries, black raspberries, plum, raspberries, dark cherries, poached strawberries, rhubarb notes & hovering blue fruits. Perfect, sweet lead pencils for days, sandy top soil, powdery limestone, dry river stone, perfectly, softened, dark spice box, cigar box, sandalwood, American, moist tobacco, used leather, dry dates & figs, sun tea, cherry cola/licorice, black rich earth with dry leaves, dry herbs-sage/bay leaves, nutmeg, cinnamon, vanillin, dark, red, blue, purple bouquet, insane acidity, with stunning evolution/integration, excellent, balance, still intense structure with a polished finish for days…wire to wire beautiful with phenomenal length & polish that seems endless. This bottle would hold another 5 years.
Sofia, love you & miss you every second of every day.
2019 vintage. A delicate Pauillac showcasing the softer side of the area. Great nose. Light-medium body. Supple and drinking über-well now as an infant but thinking a mandatory 8-10 year mandate will find it even better. Decent acidity/tannins but not prominent by any means. 7.18.23.
2019 vintage. A delicate Pauillac showcasing the softer side of the area. Great nose. Light-medium body. Supple and drinking über-well now as an infant but thinking a mandatory 8-10 year mandate will find it even better. Decent acidity/tannins but not prominent by any means. 7.18.23.
Jul 18th, 2023
This really hit the spot & is firing on all cylinders if still very young: tightly wound & dense with copious quantities of stewed black fruit (blackberry/plum cake) and kirsch liqueur with a healthy dose of wet, damp Earth, spice, vanillin oak. Very sturdy & rugged through mid palate and the finish was the only hint this isn’t classified growth juice. Over-delivers for price point
This really hit the spot & is firing on all cylinders if still very young: tightly wound & dense with copious quantities of stewed black fruit (blackberry/plum cake) and kirsch liqueur with a healthy dose of wet, damp Earth, spice, vanillin oak. Very sturdy & rugged through mid palate and the finish was the only hint this isn’t classified growth juice. Over-delivers for price point
Dec 25th, 2018
Current, plum with hints of fig supported by minerality. Decanted and savored.
Current, plum with hints of fig supported by minerality. Decanted and savored.
Nov 24th, 2018
Strategic planning dinner. Appetizer wine. Light fruit, strawberry, cherry. A little fruit forward for me, but good drinking wine. Probably better with food.
Strategic planning dinner. Appetizer wine. Light fruit, strawberry, cherry. A little fruit forward for me, but good drinking wine. Probably better with food.
Oct 25th, 2018
En Primeur Tasting 2016 Vintage in Bordeaux
En Primeur Tasting 2016 Vintage in Bordeaux
Apr 4th, 2017