2004 Château Haut-Bages Libéral

Community Tasting Notes (114) Avg Score: 89.5 points

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  4/22/2024 - Prinsen wrote: 91 Points

  Very nice bdx, fruit, acid, fresh. Ready to drink now and coming 5-8 years

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  11/7/2023 - MiloSvi Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Really good. Enjoyed with roast lamb.

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  7/18/2023 - WojteG Likes this wine: 93 Points

  2 hours in decanter and... mamma Mia!
  Smell? What a mix of prune, smoke, red cherry, leather. Not too much, but delicious aromas.
  But forget about it, because the action is in the taste. Again prunes, red cherry ( but this is 100 points flavor!), black cherry ( again 100 pts.), dark chocolate. Not too much? Maybe, but what a balance!
  Live, smooth acidity, live grippy tannins ( both of them kick my tongue in finish). Spicy, but sweet, delicious ending.
  Vinous - 96
  WE -93
  RP - 90
  Jeff Leve - 90
  CT - 90
  RP - 90
  WS - 88
  2004 vintage in Bordeaux was unpopular with the critics when it was released as a primeur wine, but 2004 has now proved itself to be of very good quality and great for cellaring.

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  2/4/2023 - Karoline.phillips Likes this wine: 90 Points

  3hr decant. Star wine. Nose of black cherry, leather, leaf mould, vanilla but lifted with freshness and greenness - tomato stalk, eucalyptus. Structured palate of blackberry, vanilla, mushroom - high acid and tanning driving the long finish. Juicy fruit flavours despite the age - this wine still has more time ahead of it

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  10/9/2022 - colmanstephenson Likes this wine:

  My last bottle of a case
  Wine given as a present for our wedding in 2005
  
  A: dark sandy, , clear water rim,
  N: old wood. Not much Fruit, a bit of menthol
  Hours later the nose had beautifully evolved into lovely Pauillac: cedar etc.
  P: Dense, In it's mid period. More structure than fruit.
  =: Wearing very well and plenty of life left in it. Enjoyed this more then previous earlier pourings.

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