2002 Château Haut-Brion

Community Tasting Notes (122) Avg Score: 92.7 points

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  5/4/2024 - Derek Darth Taster Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Opening party at Meyer. Tasted blind. Drank in Sydonios Meridional.
  Appearance is clear, deep intensity, ruby colour. Legs.
  Nose is clean, medium intensity, with aromas of gravel, graphite blackcurrant, black cherries. Developing.
  On the palate, dry, high acidity, medium alcohol (13.5%), fine high tannins, full body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of blackcurrant, black cherries, gravelly earth, graphite, cassis increasing with more air. Long grippy finish.
  Excellent quality. Still on the young side. Improved with more air. Lovely graphite, gravel and cassis. Certainly can't tell this was a challenging vintage at all when tasted blind.

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  3/23/2024 - liber Likes this wine: 95 Points

  7th of 30, opened an hour then decanted 90 minutes, perfect cork and level, little changed from previous notes, still on the nicely vibrant fruit with fab HB/Graves flavours, long and complex as ever, breed and balance, but sense of mid palate dilution, some upside, 20+ years. VF (18.5).

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  12/24/2023 - Nothung Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Spectacular! Opened ~8 hours and then decanted immediately before pouring into the glass. The wine was great from the first sip. From previous reviews it seems that earlier in its evolution the wine was not so great. Patience has been rewarded for those who have waited. It is great now and will be for many years to come.

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  9/6/2023 - gregorcb Likes this wine: 98 Points

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  8/1/2023 - bugdoced Likes this wine: 95 Points

  the merlot was not perfect during the 2002 harvest
  so this is not a 100 point wine
  but it is terrific with french earth and fruit in evolution
  For Ethan's birthday at Manitou

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