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Chateau Haut Brion(2000)
- Winery:
- Haut Brion (Château)
- Varietal:
- Bordeaux Blend
- Region:
- France > Bordeaux > Graves > Pessac-léognan
- Type:
- Red Wine
- User Tags:
- stone fruits, red grape, plum, (tree) fruit, spicy, complex, earthy, purple, subtle, acidic
Chateau tasting notes
Beautiful color, very deep with a mixing of the Haut-Brion ruby and its purple-violet shade of youth. Swishing the wine around in the glass gives a notion of its density. This complexity is followed up in the aromas that suddenly burst forth all at once: a woody hint of fine polished oak, mulberry jam, cherry pits, a touch of blackcurrant, and the bittersweet of mango. One discovers this complexness again with even more violence in the mouth. The specific notes of this vintage: the finesse of mocha, the toasted trace of praline all join with the above, melding together read more...with tannins of great complexity and softness. The finish is never ending… Exceptional bottle.
To be drunk today, tomorrow and surely even 100 years from now. (hide)
Beautiful color, very deep with a mixing of the Haut-Brion ruby and its purple-violet shade of youth. Swishing the wine around in the glass gives a notion of its density. This complexity is followed up in the aromas that suddenly burst forth all at once: a woody hint of fine polished oak, mulberry jam, cherry pits, a touch of blackcurrant, and the bittersweet of mango. One discovers this complexness again with even more violence in the mouth. The specific notes of this vintage: the finesse of mocha, the toasted trace of praline all join with the above, melding together read more...with tannins of great complexity and softness. The finish is never ending… Exceptional bottle.
To be drunk today, tomorrow and surely even 100 years from now. (hide)
- Stephen Tanzer
- International Wine Cellar
- Issue 108, May/June 2003
- 96/100
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July 2007
- ($319-$395) Full red-ruby. Roasted plum, currant, tobacco and minerals on the nose. Compellingly dense and thick but almost miraculously lively and light on its feet. Has a texture like liquid velvet, coating the entire palate. Wonderfully unmanipulated wine, with perfectly integrated acids giving it superb subtle vinosity and thrust. Finishes with outstanding building persistence, with the substantial tannins perfectly supported by the wine's fat middle.
- January 2008
- Wonderful wine with Cherry and Liquorice touch. One of my favorite ever.
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June 2007
- It will always be tempting to compare the 2000 Haut-Brion with the perfect 2000 La Mission Haut-Brion. However, it is not as fat, unctuous, flamboyant, or voluminous as La Mission. Yet, like a great diplomat, it is a wine of intensity, authority, and measured restraint. A supremely elegant offering, its dense ruby/purple color, and burgeoning perfume of scorched earth, liquid minerals, plums, black currants, cherries, lead pencil, and subtle spicy oak are followed by a delicate yet powerfully flavorful, multi-layered, highly nuanced, and extraordinarily pure and seamless wine. There read more...have been so many recent classics from Haut-Brion, it is premature to suggest the 2000 is better than the 1998, 1995, 1990, or 1989, but it is certainly a prodigious wine of dazzling persistence, length, and complexity. A blend of 51% Merlot, 42% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 7% Cabernet Franc, it should prove to be uncommonly long-lived, even by the standards of Haut-Brion. Anticipated maturity: 2012-2040. - Wine Advocate (hide)
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April 2008
- Chateau Haut Brion Pessac Leognan
- May 2007
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No written review
