1990 Château Laville Haut-Brion Blanc

Community Tasting Notes (29) Avg Score: 93.0 points

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  1/12/2024 - DaleW wrote:

  Ripe peach, vanillin oak, wax, quite ripe but there is nice core here and I like, though not best bottle I’ve had, Divisive, with some quite liking and one person disliking. We called a wine merchant dining at another table over for his opinion, he called astringent, not something I can see. For me B+

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  7/11/2022 - DaleW wrote:

  Tight and oak still shows,but nice core with pit fruits, almonds, wax, and fennel seed. Later someone tells me it’s corked, but I revisit and find no sign, though by then it’s warm and that makes it a little flabby though more open. I really don’t think corked, and was drinking as too young when at right temp. B+/A-

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  10/4/2021 - DaleW wrote:

  This needed time in decanter and tasted younger as it opened over a couple hours.. Nectarine, lemon, beeswax, complex with a long finish. Great acids for a warm vintage. A-

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  6/5/2021 - steinersing wrote: 94 Points

  this has complexity and still freshness. timeless.

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  4/21/2021 - DaleW wrote:

  One errant guess of Loire, then they got white Bordeaux and soon LHB (though guesses were younger than 1990). Wax, peach and mango, vanilla, excellent length. B+/A-

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