1983 Château Laville Haut-Brion Blanc

Community Tasting Notes (40) Median Score: 92 points

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  12/31/2023 - Cailles wrote: 96 Points

  20 Top Wines of the 1983 Vintage: Three whites. The Laville Haut Brion (96 pts) is incredibly impressive: so young and vibrant, with a perfect balance, intense and expressive, all centered around a rainbow of highly precise fresh tropical fruit notes. This seems to be an immortal wine, highly impressive but would need a bit more complexity to reach the next level. The Y d‘Yquem 1985 (94+pts) was added to the 1983 lineup as we were one white short, and it didn‘t disappoint. A complex dry Sauternes, with all the telltale aromatics and lots of freshness, missing just a bit of a cleaner, more expressive nose to reach an even higher score. The Pavillon Blanc (92pts) is more evolved than the others and shows less precise and clean but has a good acidic spine and lots of minerality giving additional lift.
  
  Decanting: Not decanted, no decanting necessary.

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  11/25/2023 - G_H wrote: 96 Points

  40 years on: A global 1983 retrospective: Mature Laville can be so fresh and deep at the same time and this was a prime example. Such a freshness coupled with this length is amazing! Wow

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  11/25/2023 - sirpat00 wrote: 96 Points

  1983 vintage horizontal with >20 wines, mostly from Bordeaux. Key observations: 1/ Acceptable vintage for Champagne with DP over-delivering, 2/ Laville Haut Brion is a masterpiece among the whites, 3/ Bordeaux is going strong at 40 years of age with stand-outs Latour and Margaux. 4/ No need to chase any Napa’s from the vintage, 5/ off-piste Italians kept up impressively with Soldera an undisputed medalist.
  
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  This is a know-out-of-the-park wine at this stage. Intense, wafting out of the glass. Fabulously fresh gooseberry and lychee fruit, smoky elements and crystal-clear minerality. Multi-layered with fresher herbal and even floral elements. Fresh acidity and a slightly creamy texture. Easily beating Pavillon Blanc ’83 and Ygreq ’85 in the flight.

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  9/2/2020 - LWI wrote: 91 Points

  Lemon, spices, almonds; almost chevy, tannic finish, very good grip. Lacking complexity.

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  7/3/2019 - SimonG wrote: 95 Points

  Jaggerfest 2019 (Harwood Arms, London): Mid to full straw. Lovely nose, rich, slightly waxy, wet wool. Rich, rounded and mouth filling. Manages to be broad and long and complex together. *****

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