Community Tasting Notes 14

• bkc1428 Likes this wine: 95 points

  February 9, 2023 - Is this a wine for everyone? No, but I love dessicated, oxidative white wines and this was quite nice. Is it worth the price tag? Not this vintage at this point, but am going to seek out a better vintage to figure out if this was may have been too evolved.

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• englishman's claret wrote: 96 points

  September 25, 2022 - The 88 Haut Brion blanc is a delight, opening with a panoply of butterscotch, overripe white peach, mineral, cooked button mushroom, almond, cream, and white pepper. Amazingly viscous, flavorful palate and a long, long finish. This bottle showed barely any oxidative character, which has clearly been an issue with some bottles of this wine based on CT notes. Idiosyncratic, but reminds you why HB and LMHB blanc do belong among the great white wines of France.

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• Jeff Leve wrote: 80 points

  October 20, 2020 - A definitive maderized character took over the wine. Tasting decades than what I would have expected, this is not a wine to purchase today. If you have any in your cellar, I would open it sooner than later, before it further degrades.

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• dream Likes this wine: 93 points

  February 2, 2019 - Color of white gold. Mature nose of honey and minerals. Quite advanced on the palate with strong flavors of oxidized honey, dried lemons and dark brown spices. Oily but still with good juicy acidity underneath and a finish that builds to an intense, concentrated marvel with notes of oxidation, caramel and unique copper-like minerals. Advanced but fascinating to taste. Sauternes-like but bone dry.

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• Bandreas Likes this wine:

  June 24, 2018 - Dark golden to amber color; the wine shows definite signs of age. Not as elegant and lithe anymore as when we last had it.
  The wine started to be what the Germans call "firn"
  There is still some complexity around but rather of a special kind which comes with old age and which doe not please everybody.
  To those who still have some bottles in your cellar my advice is: Drink it up.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1988
• Type White
• Producer Château Haut-Brion
• Varietal Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend
• Designation Blanc
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Graves
• Appellation Pessac-Léognan

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• Pending Delivery 7 (3%)
• In Cellars 92 (42%)
• Consumed 119 (55%)

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