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Community Tasting Notes (397) Avg Score: 96.0 points

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    4/14/2024 - Likes this wine: 95 Points

    A great example. Tonight besting the famous ‘89 because it’s much more developed. Beautiful fruit, tannins and acidity - much more fruit than smoke or hickory. It won’t get better even from perfectly stored bottles.

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    2/4/2024 - wrote: 99 Points

    Just a hair's breadth away from the legendary 1989, this is one of those mesmerizing wines. The wine is concentrated, long, deep, complex, and expansive, with incredible, length, purity, volume, refinement, and a seamless finish that is close to the 60-second mark. Just entering its prime, it is only going to get better from here for at least 2-3 more decades. Drink from 2024-2045.

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    1/12/2024 - wrote: 94 Points

    Not decanted, blind. Ripe vintage but not as complex, not as smoky as expected when revealed perhaps due to the lack of decanting. Immense structure, first growth quality, very smooth tannins with graphite notes. LMHB 1990/5 or a weaker Margaux? 94+

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    12/26/2023 - Likes this wine: 98 Points

    There is not much more that needs to be said other than sublime. I have given it this score as I don't know what else I can expect from a wine. Possibly a greater finish would have made it the perfect score.

    Still a beautiful glowing red with a tinge of brown on the outer edge. Barnyard, cedar, red fruits and menthol dominate the bouquet. The body is supremely elegant, suave and struts with great style and freshness. A great blend of grace and power - impeccable. Lovely linear finish.

    Drink now to 10+ years. I would be tempted only decant this wine for only 30 minutes before consumption and enjoy the ride.

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    11/18/2023 - Likes this wine: 98 Points

    Delicious WOTN in a line up against Margaux and Mouton. Blackish ruby color, dense wine, decanted and aerated for an hour then drank over two hours. Medium to full bodied, lots of asphalt, black fruits from berries, currants to cherries and plums, spicy peppery cassis, some leather and masculine notes. Powerful on the palate, secondary notes of dark red and black fruits, superb balance, structure and acidity, finishes peppery long with dark chocolate notes. Fabulous.

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  • By Antonio Galloni
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  • By Michael Godel
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  • By John Kapon
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  • By Stephen Tanzer
    The 1990 Clarets...To Have and To Hold (Nov 1993), 11/1/1993, (See more on Vinous...)

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  • By Richard Jennings
    4/18/2008, (See more on RJonWine.com...) 94 points

    (Château Haut-Brion) Medium red violet color; focused cassis nose; tasty, deep, tart cassis and mineral palate with a touch of smoke; medium-plus finish 94+ pts.

  • By Richard Jennings
    5/17/2007, (See more on RJonWine.com...) 93 points

    (Château Haut-Brion) Rich berry, cassis nose; lovely, approaching maturity, tart red fruit, cassis, with fine grained tannins; medium-plus finish 93+ pts.

Rockss and Fruit

  • By Lyle Fass
    3/20/2007, (See more on Rockss and Fruit...)

    (Chateau Haut Brion) This was a great wine and many people had it up there with their wines of the night but I can appreciate the quality of this wine but the style was not that much to my liking. Did not seem as clean as the '96 or '00. Ripe, fat and opulent. Easily the most opulent wine of the night. Nose was high-toned and round with a distinct Beaucastel-like touch of brett. There was also green peppercorn, mineral and lots of fruit. This wine showed the most fruit on the nose so far. Palate was complex with good acidity and very ripe. Stayed with you but lacking the cut I look for out of classic Haut Brion.

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