2020 Château Haut-Marbuzet

Community Tasting Notes (9) Avg Score: 91.6 points

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  4/26/2024 - Voodoo_Champagne Likes this wine:

  A fresh Bordeaux, first day tannic and powerfull, the next fruit, some Wood and tamed tannins, still at least 5 years before next try.

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  3/11/2024 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Freshly open—confusing, grape-flavored simplicity. 88-89
  24 hours later—tannins marshal, bringing a suggestion of gravel. 89-90
  Now, 45 hours later—this almost-full bottle produces something more interesting. Cedar mulch, black berry, and mint are joined by affirmative St. Estephe build and action. A tall scaffolding of inky, articulated tannin enables cooling, botanical respiration. There's plenty of mineral; and nothing remotely salty or glutamic.
  
  Pairing this wine with thoroughly rested Montgomery cheddar is beautiful, and a triumph of gastronomic scripture. It's been so long since I drank 1989 Haut Marbuzet that I couldn't insist this vintage is inferior to it (though I suspect it is.) I could, however, more confidently differentiate the "style." 2020 tastes more typical of the appellation when compared to 1989 at a similar age. Someday one of us look under the hood for clues about that, beginning with çepage. 90+ ... really on the cusp of 91. Let's see how it tastes by memory tomorrow.

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  11/23/2023 - Willi Vinotti Likes this wine: 90 Points

  This is a very good Haut Marbuzet, it took long time to open, and at this stage it started to fully sing two days after opening. Before, it did not seem to be very well together and was quite edgy and hard. After that, the wine showed very nice and typical aromatics, some cherry, blackberry, tobacco and coffee notes all nicely layered and medium long.
  
  The bad news: for this to be ready, count 15-20 years. By then i would expect the rating to increase.

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  3/21/2023 - Jeff Leve wrote: 95 Points

  Deeply colored, the wine pops with its showy nose of espresso, truffle, smoke, licorice, cocoa, blackberry and black cherries. Medium/full-bodied, with soft, silky, polished textures, lift and multiple layers of ripe, sweet, polished, lusciously-textured fruits that linger. This scored much higher in bottle than it did in barrel as the is close to fully integrated. This is clearly the best vintage ever produced at Haut Marbuzet! Give it a few more years in the cellar and you are going to have a gem in your cellar. Drink from 2025-2045.

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  10/9/2022 - CarpeDiem! Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Very edgy, in reduction phase ? But very dense and concentrated. Leave it alone for 20 years, as usual.

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