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2010 Château Haut-BergeyPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
10/3/2021 - pavel_p Likes this wine: 91 pointsFirst bottle from a case bought en primeur, and 8 years since I last had this wine en arrivage. Poured into decanter and drank over 2h or so. Very dark garnet, almost black. Initially very rich and round, the tannns however come out with a bit of air. Does not close but there is clearly a solid structure in place now. This shows over the top and rather Australian only initially but then there is good acidity to balance things out. Medium body, medium finish. 2 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (5) |
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2005 Château Haut-BergeyPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
7/27/2015 - COWineLover wrote: 88 pointsPnP. This has reached full maturity with secondary flavors being predominant at this point. Not much fruit as this is primarily composed of cedar, dried herbs, and tobacco. Somewhat drying tannins remain. The first bottle of a case, I left these too long. 2 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (4) |
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2009 Château Haut-BergeyPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
12/8/2019 - TallMikeWine Likes this wine: 90 pointsSolid value Bordeaux, not fancy, but getting to the part of the window I like. Medium body, balanced nicely. Will improve for a few more years. 1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (3) |
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2014 Château Haut-BergeyPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
6/16/2015 - PanosKakaviatos wrote: 88 pointsRevisiting Graves (Vinexpo, Bordeaux): Once again, here we have a more modern style, which readers can score higher if they like it. Yes, there is pleasing richness and even dark fruit aspects that match the acidity of the vintage. It is not so much a certain headiness from the alcohol that bugs me, but rather the somewhat drying finish and sore gums derived from what seem to be oak-derived tannins, already being extracted in barrel at this early stage. Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comments (3) |
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2009 Château Haut-BergeyPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
9/30/2013 - Serge Birbrair Does not like this wine: NRdrink fast, like all bottle in 15 mins fast. It gets worse when opened. 1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (3) |
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2005 Château Haut-BergeyPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
6/12/2020 - David Paris (dbp) wrote: NRNo formal notes, but this was a lot softer than I had expected. My bottle four years ago still didn’t seem ready to go, and had very tight massive tannins. This bottle showed hardly any tannins, and the fruit profile was very soft and supple. I will have to dig into my next bottle and write a further detailed note, but I suspect that these are full blown ready to go… Perhaps even a little past prime. 2 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (3) |
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2000 Château Haut-BergeyPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/29/2017 - Rollerball wrote: 92 pointsA friendly and true Bordeaux that holds interest at the intersection of fresh and tertiary fruit. Great with grilled skirt steak, smashed roasted butter potatoes, and grilled lemon tarragon artichoke. A no-brainer, lovely wine. 2 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (3) |
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2000 Château Haut-BergeyPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
8/9/2021 - Stufonhead Likes this wine: 92 pointsFull of tertiary aromas. Dark fruit flavor with aforementioned aromas permeating. Mild to moderate acid and tannins well-balanced. More along lines of most recent note. Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comments (3) |
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2015 Château Haut-BergeyPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
4/23/2016 - Jeff Leve wrote: 90 pointsRipe dark red berries, thyme, and smoke in the nose lead to a blast of dark cherries in the plush, round, finish. 89 - 91 Pts 2 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (3) |
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2000 Château Haut-BergeyPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
10/16/2013 - NostraBacchus Likes this wine: 93 pointsStill pretty dark purple color, getting slightly lighter towards the rim into ruby. Beautiful nose of dark chocolate, coffee, some cassis/black currant and some earth. The nose is opening up a little while it sits in the glass. On the palate there are great notes of dark berries, black currant, dark chocolate and some flowery/herbal kind of thing as well as graphite/lead pencil. Full-bodied and dense with still medium acidity providing freshness and medium+ tannin that is slightly drying but not green. Very good length. An excellent silky Bordeaux that is just at the beginning of the drinking window and provides a lot of pleasure at a modest price tag. Don't be misled by the slightly modern style, it's ageing beautifullly and provides the classic Péssac-Léognan flavor profile. I went through approx. 6 bottles over the last 3 years and they all showed identically great. Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comments (2) |
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2010 Château Haut-BergeyPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
2/11/2018 - chablis28 wrote: 91 pointsThis is the exact same btl I opened on Wed night. I had 2 small pours leftover that I had forgotten to retry on Friday & Saturday after it was still unyielding on Thursday. I was about ready to simply dump it today, Sunday, thinking it was likely dead but thought "what the heck". This was still an oaky mess on Thursday. This afternoon the clouds parted and it had finally, completely shed its massive wall of oak. I enjoyed this left over glass so much that felt compelled to dedicate a separate updated tasting note:). Finally, oak free, fresh aromas of berries & cigar box. This glass showed intriguing, cherry, cedar, mineral and tobacco leaf. This is finally, and unexpectedly, an enjoyable glass of BDX! 3 days of neglect sitting in the kitchen, paid off. Finally, the $40 spent on this wine was not a complete waste. My wife got the other small pour and felt exactly the same. A solid 91pts. If you own this wine, try a pour but don't assume you're going to enjoy drinking it on the 1st day or even the 2nd. You may need multiple days to rid the oak :). 7 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (2) |
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2001 Château Haut-BergeyPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
12/11/2013 - Jeff Leve wrote: 90 pointsFully 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. 2 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (2) |
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2015 Château Haut-BergeyPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
12/11/2022 - tristand Likes this wine: 89 points3 hours decanted. Medium low bodied. Tanins are discrete and well integrated. 2 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (2) |
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1998 Château Haut-BergeyPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
1/20/2021 - Neecies Likes this wine: NRStill one of the better left bank 98's that's not a First Growth, just pluggin' along with a solid Bordeaux foundation and good secondary development. At 23, drinks more like 15. Has outlasted a lot of bigger names. 1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (2) |
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2005 Château Haut-BergeyPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
12/10/2020 - David Paris (dbp) wrote: 91 pointsThis has been in the glass for just 30 minutes, but it has already softened and is drinking beautifully. The aromas reveal it's middle age phase, which is to say, it's offering beautifully resolved fruit flavors while still demonstrating some exuberance. The notes are fruity, and include some briar, lots of spice, acidic cranberries but also some darker fruit... perhaps a plum skin. There's bits of gravel poking through as well... when you stop and really get in, the aromas are very revealing and quite evocative. Palate entry shows some more of those plum skins, and overall, here the notes are on the dark side of the fruit scale, with lots of those plum skin notes. It's fairly hefty in the mouth, showing lusciously soft and thick palate texture. The acid and tannins do build as you hold it there. The finish hits with acidity at first, and then a blossoming of spicy fruit tones, and tons of soil notes. Gritty tannins still kick you after a few seconds. This has Pessac-Léognan written all over it. At 15 years on, I think this wine is in its prime drinking window. Don't get me wrong; it's also not going anywhere anytime soon. However, I do think it's likely plateauing. If I had one bottle left I'd be happy to have consumed it now. However, being that I have 8, I think I'll plan to keep drinking 1 a year or so until it notifies me that I need to pick up, or slow the pace. There is just the slightest hints that the fruit is softening, and I certainly wouldn't want it to soften too much... right now it's still lively in all regard, but that fruit is on the border... to me, that means drink. I love that it's offering me a maturing Bordeaux sensation at a fantastic price without too much wait time. I partially bought this wine to be a bellwether for some of the higher rung 2005 Bordeaux I bought... this is implying that perhaps the vintage can start drinking soon. 6 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (2) |
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2015 Château Haut-BergeyPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
6/12/2020 - cephomer Likes this wine: 89 pointsI drank this wine, finishing the bottle soon after tasting it and entering my prior note here, this time with food which made all the difference. With my chicken and lentils, the fruit in this wine was much more apparent, and also quite sweet and fairly sappy (yes, SW, sappy!). Acidity more apparent, and the wine was more friendly with some food accompanying it; however, the wine is still at best a middling Bdx and no more than a decent pour for a mid-week evening to serve with leftovers. 2 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (2) |
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2009 Château Haut-BergeyPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
3/17/2017 - Jonathan T Likes this wine: 93 pointsI thought this was an excellent, extremely well balanced Bordeaux. It appears I enjoyed this wine's profile more than other CT reviewers. The dark cabernet fruits are there, but I think it's the Merlot in this blend that nicely rounds out the mid-palate with earth, smoke, graphite. I had to double check the price I paid on this wine, because it might be one of the best QPR Bordeaux varietal wines I've had in a while. Definitely an overachiever at this price point and even more so from a region where affordable, high-quality wines are becoming more scarce. 1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (2) |
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2000 Château Haut-BergeyPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
2/19/2016 - NostraBacchus Likes this wine: 93 pointsIdentical note to the last few. Medium-dark purple color lightening up slightly into ruby towards the rim. Explosive notes of dark cherries, black currant, espresso, dark chocolate, graphite and some earth. It's medium-full bodied with medium but silky tannin and medium+ acidity. Great length. What a beauty! Totally mature, silky and classic Pessac-Leognan. 2 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (2) |
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2015 Château Haut-BergeyPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
7/17/2018 - Purple Tooth wrote: 90 pointsToo young, too tight, but wind in sail. Falls in line with Haut Bergey's style. Nothing spectacular, but a very correct mid tier Bordeaux that hits the same mark over and over. HOLD 2 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (2) |
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2008 Château Haut-BergeyPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
7/27/2013 - benny wrote: 89 pointsThis is quite brutal right now. Has some fundamentals that given time may develop. I will try in maybe year or two. It has to get better. Bought as futures and in my cellar at 55dg since.I hope it just needs to mature. Opened and drank over 4 hours. Not enough time. Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comments (2) |
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2009 Château Haut-BergeyPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
5/22/2020 - Nutty08 wrote: 89 pointsDidn’t have this vintage young, but seems quite similar to recent ‘14,’15, 16’s—in short other than softening tannins, I doubt this has evolved much. Has a surprising herbaceous character that sticks out from dark fruit and chocolate notes. Palate is dark, lush, seems merlot driven and quite concentrated. Has a bit of bitter oak character on back end. Smoke and flint on the finish. Not harmonious at this point, maybe could use some more time but also may just be a better wine young. Don’t know the answer. Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comments (1) |
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2000 Château Haut-BergeyPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
1/31/2014 - edjBoca Likes this wine: 92 pointsGreat balance w acidity; quite smooth; not tannic. Dark red fruits with some bacon fat notes and a nice finish. Really good after an hour open. Not decanted. Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comments (1) |
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2000 Château Haut-BergeyPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
5/9/2014 - LT98 Likes this wine: 92 pointswonderfully vibrant and fresh. Needed a little breathing, but then opened up into a lush wine with outstanding fruit; some tobacco and leather notes. Very smooth and full bodied despite the low alcohol (12.5%) content. Something I wish other chateaux could emulate. I confess I never heard of this wine before but this was a terrific bottle. Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comments (1) |
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2008 Château Haut-BergeyPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
11/9/2014 - Not647f wrote: NRI dunno, this is supposed to be really good Bordeaux for the money but it's pretty average for the price--even overpriced Napa can produce a pretty good cab (try Franciscan for one) at around this price. Decent typicity, but no real depth, kind of soft. Cherries, a little cedar, not at all bad, but I'm still not seeing why Napa is overpriced and overrated and Bordeaux is still supposed to have values. Looks about the same to me. 2 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (1) |
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2007 Château Haut-BergeyPessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend more |
8/6/2015 - pavel_p wrote: 88 pointsHave not had this wine for almost 3 years, and time has not been too kind to this 07. While this seemed like a very concentrated / extracted wine in need for more time 3 years ago, the limitations of the vintage become very obvious now. Poured into decanted and drank over 2h. A very dark garnet, almost black with a thin translucent rim. Nice nose with sous bois and spices which carries into the attack, however disappointing on the mid-palate which to my surprise is very diluted and lacking concentration, fine to medium tannins, short finish. A wine that will not fall of the cliff but also hard to see how this can improve given the lack of fruit concentration. Pleasant to drink but not more. Drink up. 1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (1) |
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