Community Tasting Notes 11

• pmk wrote: 90 points

  January 12, 2024 - decanted 2 hours. very dry, little fruit forward, funk, terroir and tannin in the long finish. gassed the bottle and on day 2 it tasted the way Parker described it - delicious red fruit forward followed by integrated and smooth layered finish with resolved tannins. Merlot came through! I suggest waiting another year or two

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• Oldmanzin Likes this wine: 93 points

  August 7, 2023 - Dark red fruit, river rock, bitter chocolate and mineral notes are displayed in this well balanced Right Bank wine. Medium weight with well integrated tannins delivers great enjoyment. The nose is somewhat muted, but elegant. Good juice.

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• Rbhan12 Likes this wine: 91 points

  April 30, 2022 - Part of a blind tasting. Writing from memory.
  
  Classy wine. Elegant, integrated, smooth. Ripe merlot fruit, long finish, rich mouthfeel without being heavy.

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• DanielAVTL Likes this wine: 91 points

  March 16, 2022 - Beautiful, Inky purple color. Wild nose of mushrooms, cherries, herbs, toast, cinnamon and blackberry. Very enticing and promising. Initial taste felt closed, with mouth-gripping tannins. Immediately moved to decant it for 90 minutes, which did the trick nicely.
  
  Mouth - medium to full bodied, round, loaded with dark fruit, plum, hints of leather and game. Tannins still quite chewy but starting to integrate gradually. Good length (20 seconds) and superb structure.
  
  Overall, drinking very nicely now, as many right bank 09's are, but could benefit from another 4-5 years of aging which will mellow out the tannins and add some complexity to the fruit, which is still a bit straightforward at this point.
  
  Not quite an elite Saint Emilion (as Parker suggested), but still very good. 91 points today, perhaps 92 points when it hits its peak.

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• Life At Your Leisure 🍷 wrote: 94 points

  March 1, 2022 - Opaque garnet turning violet at the rim with a reflective edge. The nose is perfumed with dried flowers, smoked dark berries and vanilla on the toasted oak. This has a very engaging palate with full body and a fleshy texture. There’s vibrant acidity to balance the ripe black currants and black cherry leading to a decent mid palate. Secondary flavors of dark chocolate, cola, dried meat, and suede leather resonate throughout the long finish with gripping but very refined tannins. There’s real enjoyment in its purity and unapologetic ripeness that’s reflective of the vintage. Drink now until 2034. 94+

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2009
• Type Red
• Producer Château Haut-Brisson
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation La Réserve
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Libournais
• Appellation St. Émilion Grand Cru

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• In Cellars 703 (71%)
• Consumed 281 (28%)

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