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| Community Tasting Notes (average 89.5 pts. and median of 90 pts. in 81 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by LordVoldemort on 6/25/2023 & rated 89 points: Deep ruby. The nose is not generous - at first, dominated by vanilla but also showed blackcurrant, plum, pepper and earth as it opened up. On the palate, it is more intense and rusty with notes of cedar, leather and dark berries. Nice balance of acidity and fine round tannins. Overall, nicely aged, but lacks fruit and concentration. Unlike the other comments, this didn't taste at all full bodied to me. (286 views) | | | Tasted by misco on 11/24/2021 & rated 88 points: aeration helps (977 views) | | | Tasted by Dancing with bottles on 11/4/2020 & rated 91 points: Still very young and bold. A bit rustic, fullbodied, nice dark cherry fruit, some bitterness and a pretty good finish. Just what I already sayed: a bit to one-dimensional to compete with more acclaimed chateaux, but an excellent QPR.
Drink or hold until 2025. (1706 views) | | | Tasted by Volleyball on 10/24/2020 & rated 90 points: Nice wine, good with food. Definitely getting a bit old, but well worthwhile if you’re looking for a classic, fully mature Graves at a decent price. Agree with the comment below that it was better shortly after opening.
Deep garnet color, some sign of age but not excessive.
Quite a powerful aroma once opened up, but almost all secondary and tertiary - leather and tobacco, with just a hint of dark berries
Solid acid and firm but fine tannins provide good structure. Reasonably full body and good length. Taste and aroma very consistent, maybe a little more fruit but not a ton. (1599 views) | | | Tasted by Dancing with bottles on 7/14/2020 & rated 90 points: Still in good shape, but on the decline.
Similar notes on the first day to my last bottle. Again surprisingly robust for the price tag and the vintage. A 90-91 score.
Lacking fruit on day two: a 89 score.
Drink up in the next 3-5 years. (1936 views) | | | Tasted by ohne_musik on 11/11/2019 & rated 86 points: day 1, pop and pour. Interesting. At PnP, it seems well on its way down, with almost no fruit, lots of tertiary notes and somewhat fusty and tired. Over a couple hours, it starts to show some fruit, first faded dark fruit, then a bit brighter over more time in the glass. There's oak/vanillin, coffee, and a weird medicinal band-aid/cough syrup note that doesn't really go away. A bit low on acid and soft round tannins. Probably was better 5 years ago. 86
Day 3, after stoppering and sitting in the fridge. Well, the band-aid is gone, and there’s a bit more red fruit in the glass, along with a more prominent sweet oak. 87 (2245 views) | | | Tasted by Dancing with bottles on 7/2/2019 & rated 92 points: Still a bold wine, but very enjoyable now. Fullbodied, nice dark fruit and a pretty decent finish. Just a bit to one-dimensional to compete with more acclaimed chateaux. Excellent QPR.
Drink or hold until 2023-2025. (1685 views) | | | Tasted by John Nezlek on 6/8/2019 & rated 87 points: Note: I use a scale on which 85 represents a very good wine.
For whatever reasons, not as pleasing as the bottle I had two years ago. Still a very nice bottle, but the fruit was not nearly as pronounced as it was before.
Bottle variation, time, whatever. (1181 views) | | | Tasted by locovino on 11/15/2017 & rated 93 points: Yikes! This is a very nice wine. Very slow aging from my cold cellar but still developing some nice secondary notes. Dark purple in the glass with almost no bricking at this stage. Feral and pungent nose with a dark core of black raspberry, coffee and olive fruit. Quite intense and well balanced on the finish. Has at least another 20 years to go. (2517 views) | | | Tasted by dbkitc on 9/6/2017 & rated 89 points: In your face modern fruit. Big, dark and full for the vintage. Will never be complex yet has a fun initial wave of fruit. Modern and should be drunk soon. (89) (2293 views) | | | Tasted by John Nezlek on 3/23/2017 & rated 90 points: Note: I use a scale on which 85 represents a very good wine.
Outstanding, as indicated by the 90. Opened and let it breathe for a while (45 min or so) but no decant. Wonderful rich fruit that stayed through the bottle. Tannins present but in check. Textbook Bordeaux. Great drinking. (2665 views) | | | Tasted by dbkitc on 11/22/2016 & rated 90 points: Very deep color for a 2001 Bordeaux. Dark garnet with little lightening at rim. Ripe fruit and mocha on the nose. Hard to peg this as a wine from Pessac. Round and full, the palate follows suit. A voluminous wine that show more complexity on the palate than the nose. There is decent structure that is round with no hard edges. A very modern take on red graves and while certainly delicious, not really typical or my style. Still would not turn down a glass as this is good red wine. (90) (3043 views) | | | Tasted by ThalesGaspar on 7/21/2016 & rated 90 points: Very good again! (3325 views) | | | Tasted by ThalesGaspar on 6/12/2016 & rated 90 points: Very good again. Drink soon. (2539 views) | | | Tasted by ThalesGaspar on 4/10/2016 & rated 90 points: Delicious! Perfect spot if you like aged bordeaux! (2437 views) | | | Tasted by Chateau64 on 4/7/2016 & rated 90 points: Bargain for the vintage. Surprisingly delicious. (1805 views) | | | Tasted by europat55 on 4/5/2016 & rated 89 points: Very decent price for this mature Bordeaux, and excellent wine, but not as much Bordeaux character as I would like... (1515 views) | | | Tasted by Thoughtful on 12/13/2015 & rated 91 points: Stored in cold cellar since release. High fill perfect condition. Surprisingly good for the vintage. Deep colour still young. Full well balanced almost rich. Typical Grave. A bargain! (1507 views) | | | Tasted by Thoughtful on 10/18/2015 & rated 90 points: Purchased 2008. High fill. Good fruit balance and acidity. Good value claret from ok vintage. Drink soon. (1504 views) | | | Tasted by Man in Black on 6/20/2014: The wine is clear and bright with a deep garnet colour and presence of dense legs. The nose is clean and developing, showing medium+ intensity aromas of dark cherries, dark plums, anise, vanilla, cedar, tobacco and cinnamon. The wine is dry in the mouth with a medium+ acidity. It has high soft silky tannins and a medium+ alcohol. It has a full body and medium+ intensity flavours of dark plums, dark cherries, anise, cedar, vanilla and cinnamon. The finish is medium+.
It is an outstanding quality wine with a great complexity provided by well-integrated oak aromas, it has a very good fruit concnetration and finish, it shows typicity and it has a very good overall balance. Can drink now, but it has enough tannic structure and fruit concentration to develop even more complexity and tertiary aromas over the next 4-6 years. (2860 views) | | | Tasted by Barry Notes on 2/10/2014 & rated 89 points: PnP w/3 hour decant. Slight haze, deep dark purple color. Med proper Claret nose. Wine showed very nice at this stage in time. Fully balanced/integrated, med body, good drinking window but has a few years yet. Nothing off. $26. (3282 views) | | | Tasted by Jeff Leve on 12/11/2013 & rated 90 points: Fully mature, with a smoke, coffee, black cherry, earth and fennel nose, the wine is soft, round and very easy to drink. This is not going to make old bones. I'd opt for drinking the wine over the next 5 years. (4118 views) | | | Tasted by Thilo on 5/27/2013 & rated 91 points: Surprisingly dark for a 12 year old wine. Plum and cedar on the nose. Still juicy palate with a silky finish. Very nice and a surprise. (3473 views) | | | Tasted by falp on 4/21/2013 & rated 89 points: good for day-to-day (3401 views) | | | Tasted by JeremyQ on 7/26/2012 & rated 89 points: Took it to Les Halles. Popped and poured. No details TNs but remember it to be smooth, restraint, a touch of sweetness but also some complexity and some secondary developments. Nicely aged Bordeaux (3372 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| Château Haut-Bergey Producer website - Read more about Chateau Haut Bergey
In the 15th century the “Seigneur de la Louvière” and the ”Seigneur d’Olivier” got to work on the reparcelling of agricultural land and so was born ”La maison noble de Pontey” today named CHATEAU HAUT-BERGEY. In 1700 Sir Jean-François de Cresse, a member of parliament of Bordeaux, took it over and used it as his permanent residence.
By 1772 the estate stretched over 100 hectares of vineyard. A hundred years later, though the vineyard was abandoned and in 1850 a splendid castle was reconstructed becoming a leisure residence. It was in the middle of the last century the castle returned to the wine growing roots of the past.
In March 1991 Sylviane Garcin-Cathiard acquired CHATEAU HAUT-BERGEY. Granddaughter of a wine merchant and a successful business women, her approach has always been that of a connoisseur appreciating great wine.
It was love at first sight and the promising charm of CHATEAU HAUT-BERGEY encouraged her into a large renovation project whilst respecting the former traditions. Commitment to quality is her main principle.
A naturally exceptional soil
The 28.5 hectares are located in the heart of the village of LEOGNAN, a leading area of Graves region.
At the end of the Tertiary era and during the Quaternary the changing meanderings of the Garonne left a large variety of gravel, pebbles and other stones that constitute the complexity of this exceptional ground. In springtime the temperature of soil rises constantly. During summertime and especially in September the gravel reflects the absorbed heat onto the bunches of grapes, thus improving the process of ripening.
The vineyard of HAUT-BERGEY is well exposed to the south and south-west on slightly sloping grounds, so ensuring natural drainage. The subsoil is composed of clay and chalk streaked with iron-bearing parts that also contribute to the uniqueness and personality of the wines of HAUT-BERGEY.
The red wines and the white wines
The appellation PESSAC-LEOGNAN is the only appellation that has classified red and white wines from the same terroir.
The vineyard of CHATEAU HAUT-BERGEY comprises 26.5 hectares of red grapes and 2 hectares of white grapes.
Every effort is made to make the best wines possible. The red wine is hand-made and great care is given to the selection afterwards. The grapes are transported in small boxes of 20 kg in order to avoid them being squeezed or oxidation. The preparation of the wine is done in a traditional way: every parcel of vines is separately prepared in small vats of stainless steel or wood with integrated hot and cold regulation. The wine is aged in oak barrels for between16 to 18 months according to the vintage.
The white grapes are hand-picked as well, transported in small boxes of 20 kg and are sorted. Traditional methods are applied here as well. The white wine ferments in new barrels and develops on the lees. The frequency of batonnage varies according to the development of the wine. Finally, the white wine is aged in barrels of French oak for between 10 and 12 months.
It is our foremost principle to produce a wine of excellent quality, sparing no efforts to improve our craftsmanship and expertise continuously.
Red Bordeaux BlendRed Bordeaux is generally made from a blend of grapes. Permitted grapes are Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Malbec and rarely Carménère.Today Carménère is rarely used, with Château Clerc Milon, a fifth growth Bordeaux, being one of the few to still retain Carménère vines. As of July 2019, Bordeaux wineries authorized the use of four new red grapes to combat temperature increases in Bordeaux. These newly approved grapes are Marselan, Touriga Nacional, Castets, and Arinarnoa.
Wineries all over the world aspire to making wines in a Bordeaux style. In 1988, a group of American vintners formed The Meritage Association to identify wines made in this way. Although most Meritage wines come from California, there are members of the Meritage Association in 18 states and five other countries, including Argentina, Australia, Canada, Israel, and Mexico.France Vins de France (Office National Interprofessionnel des Vins ) | Pages Vins, Directory of French Winegrowers | French Wine (Wikipedia)
Wine Scholar Guild vintage ratings
2018 vintage: "marked by a wet spring, a superb summer and a good harvest"
2019 vintage reports
2021: "From a general standpoint, whether for white, rosé or red wines, 2021 is a year marked by quality in the Rhône Valley Vineyards. Structured, elegant, fresh and fruity will be the main keywords for this new vintage."
2022 harvest: idealwine.info | wine-searcher.comBordeaux Bordeaux Wine Guide
Vins Bordeaux (Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux)
History of Bordeaux
History of 1855 Bordeaux Classification
"2009 is all about ripeness, with wines impressively packed with ripe fruit and high alcohol levels. They are showy, in-your-face, and full of pleasure. The 2010s have the fruit and alcohol levels of the 2009s, but with a compelling freshness on the finish that balances the fruit and provides a perfect sense of structure." - Ben Nelson
"2016 is a landmark vintage in certain spots of Bordeaux and it should be remembered as one of the most inspired campaigns of the last 40-50+ years." -Jon Rimmerman
"The quality of red Bordeaux in 2016 was universally lauded – although the response to the en primeur campaign was muted. Quantity was high too, with the equivalent of 770 million bottles of wine produced. An exceptionally dry summer with cool nights eventually, thanks to mid September rain, resulted in small, thick-skinned, ripe grapes, and the wines are marked by high tannin and acidity, with superb aromatic fragrance." - Jancis Robinson
"2017 was complicated, but there are some excellent wines. Expect plenty of freshness and drinkability from wines that will offer excellent value, and others that will rival 2016 in terms of ripeness and ageability. But they are likely to be the exception not the rule, making careful selection key." - Jane Anson
"In the past, a vintage such as 2022 may have been overripe, raisined and low in acidity but 2022 had a sneaky little reservoir in its back pocket - a near perfect marriage of cool/cold/rain the previous winter and the previous vintage that literally soaked the soils (a key to why 2022 is not 2003...or 1893)." - Jon RimmermanGraves Vins de Graves (Conseil des Vins de Graves) - Read more about Pessac Leogan Graves and its winesPessac-Léognan Pessac-Leognan reds:
Grape Varieties: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot
Soil: Predominantly gravel and sandy rock, with varying proportions of clay and sandstone
Surface Area: 1,491 ha
Pessac-Leognan whites:
Grape Varieties: Sauvignon Blanc, Sémillon
Soil: Gravel and rocks covered with sand, sandstone, and clay
Surface Area: 275 ha |
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