Château Haut-Brion - Pessac-Léognan 2009 (750ml)
Price: $1300.00
| Producer | Château Haut-Brion |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | Pessac-Leognan |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
| Vintage | 2009 |
| Sku | 3852B |
| Size | 750ml |
Wine Advocate: 100 Points
The 2009 Haut-Brion is deep garnet colored and slightly closed and shy to begin slowly unfurling to reveal sensuous notions of warm blackberries plum preserves mulberries and blackcurrant cordial with touches of star anise mocha and damp soil. Full-bodied taut and tightly wound in the mouth the palate delivers mouth-coating black fruit and mineral layers with a very firm frame of ripe grainy tannins finishing long and earthy. This needs time! Published: Mar 14 2019
Wine Spectator: 98 Points
This enormous young wine is among the most backward of the vintage at this early stage with iron-clad grip holding the broad deep core of blackberry cassis and roasted fig notes in check for now. The finish is a torrent of dense almost compressed layers of tobacco leaf hot paving stone singed bay leaf and tar that will take at least a decade to massage together fully. This one is for the kids born in 2009. Best from 2020 through 2040. 10500 cases made.
Vinous: 97 Points
The 2009 Haut-Brion has a less precocious but more detailed bouquet more nuanced perhaps with warm slates baking in the summer sun tilled loam and cedar infusing the black fruit. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin perfect acidity layers of mineral-rich black fruit. This seems to have gained more complexity in recent years and is beginning to flirt with perfection. It’s not there yet but it is moving in that direction. Tasted at BI Wines & Spirits' Ten Year On tasting.
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