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Château Haut-Brion

The 2021 Château Haut-Brion has earned its place in The World of Fine Wine’s handpicked collection of tasting notes, featuring insights from the world’s foremost wine authorities. Explore in-depth commentary from wine expert Michael Schuster on Château Haut-Brion - an internationally acclaimed dry white from Bordeaux.
Château Haut-Brion
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Wine Name
Château Haut-Brion

Wine Producer
Château Haut-Brion

Score
93

Wine Style
White - Dry

Grape Type
Sauvignon Blanc
Sémillon

Country
France

Vintage
2020

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Michael Schuster | Pale yellow, cloudy; like the La Mission blanc, discreet and closed, with ripe guava being the principal impression, and the Sauvignon very “mute”; full, relatively supple, with adequate acidity, but clearly in a softer, hot-year style, gently mouth-filling, fairly complex and long to taste, but considering what it can be, and often is, this lacks real race and drive on the mid-palate, but has excellent, Sauvignon Blanc-fragrant length. Good, of course, but some way from a grand vintage (like 2017 or 2014). This will likely age gracefully—the 1982, drunk recently, was wonderful at nearly 40 years—though that would not, I think, have been 14% ABV. 2028–40+?

Details

Wine expert Michael Schuster
Tastings year 2021
Region Bordeaux
AppellationAOC
% Alcohol By Volume14
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