2010 Château Haut-Brion

Community Tasting Notes (18) Avg Score: 95.3 points

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  12/18/2023 - duchamp Likes this wine: 98 Points

  Deep ruby, engulfing bouquet of pastis, blackcurrants, licorice, violets, tar, and black tea, followed by pencil shavings, wood spice, tobacco, and earth (wow), structured, spicey and deep on the attack with strong and complex dark berry fruits, spice, teeth coating tannins, and sappy acidity, finish is for days with mocha, earth, black cherry, blackcurrant, and on and on, it's a show stopper
  
  Note: My second go at this claret and, although the last one was memorable, this one just seemed to be singing all the right notes, may be the best wine I've ever indulged

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  11/3/2023 - dcwino wrote: 96 Points

  Grand Jury du Vin - Republic of Georgia; 11/1/2023-11/9/2023 (Republic of Georgia then stopover in Paris and Dijon): wine 22 – Exceptional finesse, sensual, silky. Excellent concentration, silky tannins and bright acidity.
  
  Afterthought – Truly a grand vin! A great Bordeaux. Perhaps my rating was too low. The repeat of the 89?

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  3/25/2023 - VinhoVerde Likes this wine:

  Deep dark red color. Jammy black fruit, smoke, and mineral aromas. Rich youthful fruit flavor almost masks the tannins lurking underneath. This wine needs more time to develop secondary characteristics now and it would be unfair to give it a numeral score. Give it a decade at least.
  
  Tasted this at Mark’s yearly Bordeaux tasting. Sampled 12 vintages each of Château Haut Brion and Château Margaux. Great wines and comradeship, what an exceptional event to be part of!
  Thanks to our host for his generosity in presenting a once in a lifetime Bordeaux tasting experience.

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  3/18/2023 - Eric wrote:

  Haut-Brion and Margaux courtesy of Mark Taylor; 3/18/2023-3/19/2023 (Atlanta, GA): Violet, super floral nose. Explosive, young, so saturated on the palate with SOOOO much fruit, huge structure. This is as close to a fruit bomb as HB gets (not very close), super enjoyable for such a young wine.
  
  My #2 and the group #5. Correctly guessed as 2010.

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  6/6/2022 - rthpal Likes this wine: 99 Points

  Dark red. The aroma seemed partly muted, even after a 15-hour decanting, so I deducted 1 point (my Goleta friend said he would only deduct half a point). The great Pessac-Leognan taste was much enjoyed by my friend and me. I gave the wine 99 points.

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