1986 Château Haut-Bages Libéral
Community Tasting Note
PSPatrick wrote:
Wednesday, March 25, 2020 - From a trusted source. The bottle was in perfect condition: high fill, the cork was intact, no seepage. The wine was dark ruby in colour, garnet towards the edges, with very little sediment. It offered dark fruit, some dark cherry, saddle leather, earth, tobacco, spices, cinnamon and liquorice on the nose and palate, with supporting acidity, medium-fine tannin and very good length.
The dry, medium- to full-bodied wine had good concentration. A very earthy, leathery and spice-driven expression of Pauillac that still has some rough edges and plenty of life left. I wonder if it will ever fully come around and will hold on to my other bottles for at least another three or four years to allow the wine to open up and soften further.
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