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Red
2018 Château Haut-Brion
Red Bordeaux Blend
- France
- Bordeaux
- Graves
- Pessac-Léognan
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Community Tasting Notes 10
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DrELW Likes this wine: 99 points
May 11, 2024 - We celebrated our friends 24th anniversary tonight at a steak restaurant. We opened the 2018 Mouton Rothschild along with a 2018 Haut-Brion. They were both opened and decanted at the restaurant. They spend about 30 minutes in the decanter while we finished some champagne. I like to make these top end wines compete, and this was a heavyweight battle. There were no surprises in terms of the flavor profiles of these two wines - both varietal. The Mouton was bigger and more tannic than the Haut-Brion. The Haut-Brion was very elegant and much more enjoyable at this early phase. The complexity of the Haut-Brion was a standout relative to the Mouton. There was an explosion of blackberry compote in the mid-palate of the Haut-Brion. Both wines will have a long shelf life, but the Haut-Brion is drinking better now. Mouton - 96 : Haut-Brion - 99
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ayalao3 wrote: 99 points
November 7, 2023 - 99-100.
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Irish_Wine wrote: 97 points
November 1, 2022 - Medium ruby.
Incredible depth on the nose with black currant, black plum, black cherry, cedar, graphite, cinnamon.
Incredible palate - super pronounced, lovely evolving finish. Fantastic wine.
*** Tasted as part of a walkaround 2018 Bordeaux tasting. Not full notes ***2 people found this helpful Comment -
kstoddard wrote: 89 points
March 28, 2022 - No fruit. Stemy. Off bottle?
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beatles wrote: 99 points
February 22, 2022 - The sheer class of Haut-Brion overpowers the vintage here. This one stays otally on it's feet, a dense, deep wine with smoke and blackberry galore, great concentration and a ripe core. Needs time.
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Wine Definition
- Vintage 2018
- Type Red
- Producer Château Haut-Brion
- Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
- Designation n/a
- Vineyard n/a
- Country France
- Region Bordeaux
- SubRegion Graves
- Appellation Pessac-Léognan
- UPC Codes 031259016368, 3258691629797, 3277034255035, 3460270056621, 3612179705074, 3700447717512, 3760278781175, 802236002519
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 316 (9%)
- In Cellars 3,197 (88%)
- Consumed 128 (4%)
Food Pairing
No food pairings available.
Who Likes This Wine
100% Like It 2 votes
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- AppellationPessac-Léognan
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