Château Haut-Brion - Pessac-Léognan 2020 (750ml)
Price: $885.00
| Producer | Château Haut-Brion |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | Pessac-Leognan |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
| Vintage | 2020 |
| Sku | 1006804 |
| Size | 750ml |
Jeb Dunnuck: 100 Points
James Suckling: 100 Points
This is a superb Haut-Brion with incredible tannins that are wonderfully fine-grained. It?s really powerful. This is very primary with so much grape-generated tannin structure. Very very long going on for minutes. Seductive and friendly at the start and then takes you on at the finish with so much structure. Wine of the vintage?
The Wine Independent: 99 Points
The 2020 Haut Brion is a blend of 42.8% Merlot 39.7% Cabernet Sauvignon and 17.5% Cabernet Franc with a pH of 3.78. Deep garnet-purple in color it opens with profound blackcurrant cordial baked plums and boysenberry preserves notes leading to an undercurrent of graphite iron ore black truffles and wood smoke plus a hint of cardamom. The full-bodied palate is tightly knit with black fruit and mineral layers supported by a rock-solid backbone of grainy tannins and seamless acidity finishing long and savory.
Vinous: 97-99 Points
The 2020 Haut-Brion is shaping up to be one of the wines of the year. Substance depth and textural intensity elevate Haut-Brion into the realm of the sublime in 2020. All the elements are so wonderfully balanced. Inky dark fruit gravel lavender violet and dark spice build as the 2020 gradually opens with some aeration. Wow.
Decanter: 97 Points
Concentrated and persistent. This remains quite tight overall with clear power push and generosity of ripe blackcurrants fragrant black cherries blueberries liquorice cocoa powder clove and wet stone. The acidity and oak keep the elements all very centred but there?s no denying this is a statuesque wine that will need ti
Jane Anson: 96 Points
Where usually Haut-Brion feels rooted in the Left Bank this is almost Pomerol in its fleshy fruits. Strikingly powerful layers of plum damson cocoa crushed rocks bitter black chocolate. Easy to see the brilliance of this wine one to stand back and admire wiat for those muscular tannins and fresh acidities to melt together over the next few decades. Harvest from 7th to 29th September 77% new oak.
Wine Advocate: 96 Points
The 2020 Haut-Brion has a smorgasbord of red and black fruit on the nose Indian ink and pressed violets touches of undergrowth (morels?) emerging with time in the glass. There is just a note of reduction here. The palate is medium-bodied with pliant tannins fresh and saline with hints of black olive and white pepper. A lingering very controlled black pepper tinged finish is very harmonious and understated - remarkable given the 15% alcohol slightly higher than La Mission. Excellent?but I am not convinced that would put it in the top tier of this First Growth?at least not yet.
