2006 La Mission Haut-Brion. 59% Merlot, 40% CS, 1% CF. B2L2I2C2. 96+. 18 years old. Deep Garnet. Plenty of red and black fruits (plum, dark cherry, raspberry, blackberry, blueberry, ripe strawberry. Rose, violet and geranium flowers. Bell pepper and liquorice. Iodine, chalky and wet stone. Black pepper. Vanilla, chocolate, cedar, nutmeg, cinnamon and toastiness. Buttery. Dough, biscuit and yeasty. Tobacco, coffee, leather, cigar and mushroom. Plenty of richness and tannin on the palate. Sweet with mineral undertones. Expansive wine in the mouth. Full-bodied, concentrated with fine silky tannins. Still very strong, young and fresh. Required 3 hours of decanting before it started to show its true potential - incredibly balanced, great intensity, long finish and complex. An excellent wine indeed.
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this was drunk alongside the 2004 La Mission Haut-Brion and was much the better of the two although neither are really ready to drink - this has quite some substance to it and should be excellent in time - I would leave this for at least a couple of years
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Wow, this is a really good wine already showing great depth and balance with a thick, savory texture and fabulous flavors of dark red fruits, smoky gravel and sweet tobacco. Rich but not over the top and just a fabulous La Miss that can be drunk now but will obviously age gracefully for decades. The wine of the vintage in Bordeaux? 95+
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Really beautiful wine and a much needed change up after touring Australia wine country (which was great!). Classic dark fruit, cassis, and earthy profile, bit of tobacco, some good tannin structure still. Very classy wine. Quite good now with a decant but I can see this blossoming a bit more still.
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Drank at a steak restaurant. Decanted briefly before drinking over 1.5 hours. Silky and resolved tanins, but will likely improve. Ready from the get go. Would love to try again in 5 years.
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Clear deep ruby; clean medium minus nose of cassis and graphite; dry; high acidity; high tannins; high alcohol; medium plus body; pronounced flavour intensity; palate is tarter with addition of cocoa; long finish; muscular wine with enough tannins and structure to develop for decades; drink now if you like power or wait if you don’t; tasted at Haut Brion LCBO dinner
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The Four Seasons Tasting 2006 Bordeaux First Growths (Aubergine Restaurant): Deep garnet-coloured wine with lifted fruit aromas of cherry, red & blackcurrant, bitter chocolate, beef stock and bay leaf. It is medium to full-bodied on the palate with a luxurious combination of cherry, liquorice, wet tobacco and dark chocolate flavours, balanced by firm but dense, chewy tannins. Hints of liquorice, spice cake and tobacco are present, balanced by lingering, fresh acidity. The wine is almost 'showy', utterly appealing with a linear but powerful finish. There is an athletic muscle yet elegance here, which still needs more time in the bottle to reach its full potential for complexity and balance. An outstanding example of quality winemaking!
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A private dinner (Restaurant Café Caron, Amsterdam, NL): Remarkably gentle and flowing for a 2006, with nicely resolved tannins and beautifully ripe fruit of liquorous cherries and blackcurrants, floral lift, graphite and earth, warm bricks, finely grained tannins, very good definition but just a bit light on the back palate and the finish, lacking in drive and follow-through. A very good but not great year for La Mission.
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Like this! Dense ruby/purple colour. Classy and elegant on the nose, light vanilla, sweet blue and black fruit notes with notions of flowers. Very fruity and rich. Full-bodied. Complex. Very balanced. Incredible depth and precise. Very long finish. Excellent wine!
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Medium ruby colored - some brownish notes on the edge. Alluring nose with ripe dark cherry, black currant, blackberries and some smoky tar notes. On the palate it pretty much feels the same - black berries are dominant, some nice leather and dried tobacco notes too. I enjoy these beautiful tertiary notes. Medium (+) bodied with a medium acidity. Nicely integrated and long tannins. Fruit is fading after two hours in the decanter. Good complexity and depth. Very good overall balance. Finish was medium long. This is in a nice spot right now and in my opinion there’s no need to wait any longer. Give it a short decanting for around 30 minutes and enjoy it. Drink now until 2026. (IG)
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Epic Bordeaux for an Epic Birthday!; 9/1/2021-9/12/2021 (Paris & Bordeaux): Off the wine list to almost finish out the night. I guess in keeping with the theme we had of a lot of HB but makes sense given our company. This not quite as good at the others but it's also a lot younger and so hasn't come as far along. I'm noticing a theme that I tend to even blind gravitate a bit more towards HB than Miss but I haven't figured out exactly why that is.
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The 2006 La Mission Haut Brion is showing very well at age 15, and even though its still five or six years away from the beginning of its plateau of maturity, it is already quite expressive, wafting from the glass with aromas of blackberries and blackcurrants mingled with notions of smoke, cigar wrapper, black truffle and loamy soil. Full-bodied, fleshy and muscular, with a richly layered core of fruit framed by plenty of ripe, powdery tannin, in a blind tasting I suspect many would confuse it with a 2005.
93-95. Still young on open, dark cherries and cedar on the nose. Decant for about 3 hours to show its potential. Full of dark fruits and spicy oaks, long fine tannings hit mouth hard. It's best image lasts about one hour in the glass and then goes down very quickly. 2006 is not an exception after all. Maybe some more years of aging can make it a really jewel from the bottle. But do think it will decline soon after passing by the peak. Carefully choose the drink window.
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An appealing bouquet with dark fruit, graphite and undergrowth. Lovely elegant claret, "A hug from the inside". Medium-bodied, with present acidity and well-integrated tannins. Long finish. Excellent performance is a lesser rated vintage.
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4 hour decant. Upon opening wonderful dark fruits of the forest on the nose, rich and no hint of green or tannins. Needed to be warmer and still very young. Lots of tannin towards the end and fruit is there but subdued.
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Very beautiful Bordeaux second growth. While still pretty young (12 years) it has all of the elements of a great wine. Cedar, roses, and forrest on the nose and somewhat tannic on the palette this was an elegant wine that went up against a 1985 Dunn Howell and many Burgundies. Glad I have another bottle!
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Bordeaux BYOB #1: high fruit concentration, fresh basement notes, cigarr and sweet tobacco on the nose. Rich and powerful mouthfeel, tough tannins, grand wine, some heat, nice balance, young, great potential, bury deep in cellar, accessible but too young drink now. Opulent modern new world style. 94p. Votes 1
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Semiblind Haut Brion Tasting (Guido's Cellar): Sehr spannende semiblinde Haut Brion – Probe in sehr geselliger Runde mit tollem Gastgeber und einer sehr leckeren Forellen-Tarte. Alle Flaschen wurden zwischen 0,5-3 Stunden doppelt dekantiert. Was die Treffgenauigkeit der Jahrgänge betraf, ist noch deutlich Luft nach oben. Interessant war, dass die Differenz in den Bewertungen (6 Trinker) bei fast allen Weinen maximal im 2-Punkte-Bereich lagen. Es wurde eine Flasche nach der anderen getrunken. Keine Flights. Keine fehlerhaften Weine.
Kam als Pirat am Ende. Noch immer eher in seiner Primärphase. Sehr ausgewogen, dadurch bereitet er jetzt schon viel Trinkspaß. Braucht Zeit und Luft. 93+P
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This wine has a core with really dark, ripe, sweet, fullbodied, fruit. A bit closed, with obvious tannins, and with quite a lot of disturbing oak the first hours after opening. After 72 hours of slowox and a double decant, the sweetness starts to show, and this is very drinkable. 96-97 pts.
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Drank with a filet mignon, rösti and pan seared swiss chard. Great example of a high quality Pessac-Léognan. There is strength, coolness and inviting warmth. Very interesting how it's refreshingly cool and shows maturity at the same time. Lots of character.
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Full bodied, still youthful, tannic and fresh, the wine has smoke, tobacco, cassis, ripe black fruits and tannins to spare. However, the tannins are firm and there is a strictness to the wines classic character that will appeal to some more than others. You will need to wait at least a decade before this opens and is fun to drink.
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2015 New York Wine Experience Trip; 10/19/2015-10/27/2015 (New York City, NY): Deep-to-opaque ruby/red, this iteration of La Mission Haut-Brion, at this particular stage, is monolithic and has probably shut down. To be sure, there are aromas and flavors of black fruit, minerals, anise and tobacco, but they are overwhelmed by the wine's massive tannins. Freshly acidic and without alcoholic heat, there is solidity in the middle. The wine closes long but quite astringent. To my palate, this is "austerity" that would make the Grecian people feel lucky. It should substantially improve with time in the cellar, but I wonder if the fruit will be able to outlast the tannins. Drink 2025-2040.
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earth,cold wet stones, graves, pencil, reluctant typical bx nose, minerality, cherry, acidizy present, elegant, I'M missing some extract sweetness, good length, a bit too alcoholic for a bx, too young 3 hours decantation, follow up will be interesting
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Dark fruited with graphite and limestone acidity chalkiness. Very moreish and right bank like and as a critic rightly mentioned this is the Petrus on the left bank. Definitely very structured yet with that roundness and fruitiness as one would find in a delectable pomerol. Definitely needs time.
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2006 Bordeaux Tastings; 10/24/2009-11/1/2009: Very tight - slight green in the flavor profile compared to HB but very nice, palate is quite round and good 94-95. Very similar on nose to Haut Brion, hard to distinguish. 2nd taste: round fruit on palate, very pretty nose. Best of tasting, by a hair over Haut-Brion; this has a tighter core of structure.
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This starts with plum, herb, tobacco and spice nose. The palate enjoys ripe, chocolate, cassis and plum flavors. There is ample tannin and body to allow the wine to age gracefully for decades.
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Chateau Haut-Brion Seminar (Binny's South Loop - Chicago, IL): Etheral menthol aromas with spicy red raspberries also onthe nose. Excellent representation of classic Old World 'terroir.' Layered aromas of soy, chocolate, and pencil lead. Lively deep red flowers. Palate is really really really young and super tight. Some red vegetables on the palate like roasted red peppers. Elegant structured Bordeaux style. Awesome acidity on the back end. Makes me want to take another sip...and another...
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2/4/2024 - NMIZ wrote: 96 Points
2006 La Mission Haut-Brion. 59% Merlot, 40% CS, 1% CF. B2L2I2C2. 96+. 18 years old. Deep Garnet. Plenty of red and black fruits (plum, dark cherry, raspberry, blackberry, blueberry, ripe strawberry. Rose, violet and geranium flowers. Bell pepper and liquorice. Iodine, chalky and wet stone. Black pepper. Vanilla, chocolate, cedar, nutmeg, cinnamon and toastiness. Buttery. Dough, biscuit and yeasty. Tobacco, coffee, leather, cigar and mushroom. Plenty of richness and tannin on the palate. Sweet with mineral undertones. Expansive wine in the mouth. Full-bodied, concentrated with fine silky tannins. Still very strong, young and fresh. Required 3 hours of decanting before it started to show its true potential - incredibly balanced, great intensity, long finish and complex. An excellent wine indeed.
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12/11/2023 - steinersing wrote: 93 Points
Struggled to identify blind - guessed right bank. Good wine probably limited by the vintage.
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12/4/2023 - hargy Likes this wine: 92 Points
this was drunk alongside the 2004 La Mission Haut-Brion and was much the better of the two although neither are really ready to drink - this has quite some substance to it and should be excellent in time - I would leave this for at least a couple of years
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10/25/2023 - dream Likes this wine: 95 Points
Wow, this is a really good wine already showing great depth and balance with a thick, savory texture and fabulous flavors of dark red fruits, smoky gravel and sweet tobacco. Rich but not over the top and just a fabulous La Miss that can be drunk now but will obviously age gracefully for decades. The wine of the vintage in Bordeaux? 95+
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7/25/2023 - Prgino wrote:
Brought to Gather with the Fosters
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5/5/2023 - SonnyChiba wrote: 94 Points
Really beautiful wine and a much needed change up after touring Australia wine country (which was great!).
Classic dark fruit, cassis, and earthy profile, bit of tobacco, some good tannin structure still. Very classy wine.
Quite good now with a decant but I can see this blossoming a bit more still.
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5/5/2023 - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Likes this wine: 94 Points
Drank at a steak restaurant. Decanted briefly before drinking over 1.5 hours. Silky and resolved tanins, but will likely improve. Ready from the get go. Would love to try again in 5 years.
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11/30/2022 - Brent25 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Clear deep ruby; clean medium minus nose of cassis and graphite; dry; high acidity; high tannins; high alcohol; medium plus body; pronounced flavour intensity; palate is tarter with addition of cocoa; long finish; muscular wine with enough tannins and structure to develop for decades; drink now if you like power or wait if you don’t; tasted at Haut Brion LCBO dinner
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6/27/2022 - kristamck Likes this wine: 93 Points
Excellent wine. Complimented Steak Diane very well.
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4/22/2022 - rikipedia Likes this wine: 97 Points
The Four Seasons Tasting 2006 Bordeaux First Growths (Aubergine Restaurant): Deep garnet-coloured wine with lifted fruit aromas of cherry, red & blackcurrant, bitter chocolate, beef stock and bay leaf. It is medium to full-bodied on the palate with a luxurious combination of cherry, liquorice, wet tobacco and dark chocolate flavours, balanced by firm but dense, chewy tannins. Hints of liquorice, spice cake and tobacco are present, balanced by lingering, fresh acidity. The wine is almost 'showy', utterly appealing with a linear but powerful finish. There is an athletic muscle yet elegance here, which still needs more time in the bottle to reach its full potential for complexity and balance. An outstanding example of quality winemaking!
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11/21/2021 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 93 Points
A private dinner (Restaurant Café Caron, Amsterdam, NL): Remarkably gentle and flowing for a 2006, with nicely resolved tannins and beautifully ripe fruit of liquorous cherries and blackcurrants, floral lift, graphite and earth, warm bricks, finely grained tannins, very good definition but just a bit light on the back palate and the finish, lacking in drive and follow-through. A very good but not great year for La Mission.
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11/6/2021 - NMIZ Likes this wine: 95 Points
Like this! Dense ruby/purple colour. Classy and elegant on the nose, light vanilla, sweet blue and black fruit notes with notions of flowers. Very fruity and rich. Full-bodied. Complex. Very balanced. Incredible depth and precise. Very long finish. Excellent wine!
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10/29/2021 - DrZett wrote: 93 Points
Medium ruby colored - some brownish notes on the edge. Alluring nose with ripe dark cherry, black currant, blackberries and some smoky tar notes. On the palate it pretty much feels the same - black berries are dominant, some nice leather and dried tobacco notes too. I enjoy these beautiful tertiary notes. Medium (+) bodied with a medium acidity. Nicely integrated and long tannins. Fruit is fading after two hours in the decanter. Good complexity and depth. Very good overall balance. Finish was medium long.
This is in a nice spot right now and in my opinion there’s no need to wait any longer. Give it a short decanting for around 30 minutes and enjoy it. Drink now until 2026. (IG)
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9/11/2021 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
Epic Bordeaux for an Epic Birthday!; 9/1/2021-9/12/2021 (Paris & Bordeaux): Off the wine list to almost finish out the night. I guess in keeping with the theme we had of a lot of HB but makes sense given our company. This not quite as good at the others but it's also a lot younger and so hasn't come as far along. I'm noticing a theme that I tend to even blind gravitate a bit more towards HB than Miss but I haven't figured out exactly why that is.
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9/1/2021 - William Kelley Likes this wine: 95 Points
The 2006 La Mission Haut Brion is showing very well at age 15, and even though its still five or six years away from the beginning of its plateau of maturity, it is already quite expressive, wafting from the glass with aromas of blackberries and blackcurrants mingled with notions of smoke, cigar wrapper, black truffle and loamy soil. Full-bodied, fleshy and muscular, with a richly layered core of fruit framed by plenty of ripe, powdery tannin, in a blind tasting I suspect many would confuse it with a 2005.
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2/11/2021 - ShubyLee Likes this wine: 94 Points
93-95. Still young on open, dark cherries and cedar on the nose. Decant for about 3 hours to show its potential. Full of dark fruits and spicy oaks, long fine tannings hit mouth hard. It's best image lasts about one hour in the glass and then goes down very quickly. 2006 is not an exception after all. Maybe some more years of aging can make it a really jewel from the bottle. But do think it will decline soon after passing by the peak. Carefully choose the drink window.
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12/10/2020 - tmagsmaken Likes this wine: 93 Points
An appealing bouquet with dark fruit, graphite and undergrowth.
Lovely elegant claret, "A hug from the inside".
Medium-bodied, with present acidity and well-integrated tannins. Long finish. Excellent performance is a lesser rated vintage.
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11/5/2020 - hprphf wrote: 92 Points
Double magnum. Soil, purple fruit, good balance, missing on elegance. 91-92
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12/24/2019 - Mhbeaune wrote: 89 Points
4 hour decant. Upon opening wonderful dark fruits of the forest on the nose, rich and no hint of green or tannins. Needed to be warmer and still very young. Lots of tannin towards the end and fruit is there but subdued.
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12/5/2019 - Raizes Likes this wine: 93 Points
开瓶四个小时入杯，依然很多青椒、辣椒和泥土混杂的味道。随着后续醒酒，慢慢涌现出较多黑色水果和香料气息，但略显混沌。口中的单宁质地略欠细腻，而酸度被更加明显的甜美感压过。感觉当晚的这款酒始终不在最佳状态。
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11/21/2018 - Mitch 69 wrote: flawed
Kurk
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10/19/2018 - Alexander Smith Likes this wine: 97 Points
New York Wine Experience 2018 (New York Marriott Marquis): This is so elegant and refined, with fine notes of coffee, cherry, vanilla, and a smooth refined finish. I preferred this to any of the first growths on show tonight.
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10/18/2018 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
Wine Spectator newbies; 10/18/2018-10/20/2018 (Marriott Marquis): Fresh style of wine with a hint of barnyard and fruit and cigar. This is nice and enjoyable and yet somehow doesn't quite live up to all of the hype I always hear about La Mission.
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8/18/2018 - napasoutherner Likes this wine: 94 Points
Very beautiful Bordeaux second growth. While still pretty young (12 years) it has all of the elements of a great wine. Cedar, roses, and forrest on the nose and somewhat tannic on the palette this was an elegant wine that went up against a 1985 Dunn Howell and many Burgundies. Glad I have another bottle!
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7/12/2018 - Bathtub58 wrote: 91 Points
Too much Merlot for my taste, but a nice wine.
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6/16/2018 - fcxj wrote: 92 Points
Quite forward, tasty.
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5/31/2018 - Raizes Likes this wine: 96 Points
黑醋栗、黑莓、李子，香草、薄荷、甘草、咖啡、泥土和雪茄盒，香气的复杂度非常出色，但还未到“清晰”的程度。酸度骨架非常好，单宁正在逐渐柔顺，在口中的结构宏大而不失优雅。
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1/17/2018 - Markus IWC wrote: 94 Points
Bordeaux BYOB #1: high fruit concentration, fresh basement notes, cigarr and sweet tobacco on the nose. Rich and powerful mouthfeel, tough tannins, grand wine, some heat, nice balance, young, great potential, bury deep in cellar, accessible but too young drink now. Opulent modern new world style. 94p. Votes 1
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10/29/2017 - aquacongas Likes this wine: 93 Points
Semiblind Haut Brion Tasting (Guido's Cellar): Sehr spannende semiblinde Haut Brion – Probe in sehr geselliger Runde mit tollem Gastgeber und einer sehr leckeren Forellen-Tarte. Alle Flaschen wurden zwischen 0,5-3 Stunden doppelt dekantiert. Was die Treffgenauigkeit der Jahrgänge betraf, ist noch deutlich Luft nach oben. Interessant war, dass die Differenz in den Bewertungen (6 Trinker) bei fast allen Weinen maximal im 2-Punkte-Bereich lagen. Es wurde eine Flasche nach der anderen getrunken. Keine Flights. Keine fehlerhaften Weine.
Kam als Pirat am Ende. Noch immer eher in seiner Primärphase. Sehr ausgewogen, dadurch bereitet er jetzt schon viel Trinkspaß. Braucht Zeit und Luft. 93+P
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7/4/2017 - rlove wrote:
Still quite closed and tannic, with a nose dominated by new oak. There's an inner core of dark fruit in here but it remains elusive.
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6/19/2017 - Sundbyberg wrote: 96 Points
This wine has a core with really dark, ripe, sweet, fullbodied, fruit. A bit closed, with obvious tannins, and with quite a lot of disturbing oak the first hours after opening.
After 72 hours of slowox and a double decant, the sweetness starts to show, and this is very drinkable.
96-97 pts.
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5/6/2017 - mikita77 Likes this wine: 95 Points
Drank with a filet mignon, rösti and pan seared swiss chard. Great example of a high quality Pessac-Léognan. There is strength, coolness and inviting warmth. Very interesting how it's refreshingly cool and shows maturity at the same time. Lots of character.
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5/25/2016 - Jeff Leve wrote: 94 Points
Full bodied, still youthful, tannic and fresh, the wine has smoke, tobacco, cassis, ripe black fruits and tannins to spare. However, the tannins are firm and there is a strictness to the wines classic character that will appeal to some more than others. You will need to wait at least a decade before this opens and is fun to drink.
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3/22/2016 - SlimShaney wrote: 91 Points
Fast sips are silky. Trepid tastes are tannic.
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3/16/2016 - Alex H wrote:
Taut, stout and structured tannins. Fruits are hard to say the least. Needs a decade. Not sure though. This has closed up quite a bit.
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10/22/2015 - La Cave d'Argent Likes this wine: 91 Points
2015 New York Wine Experience Trip; 10/19/2015-10/27/2015 (New York City, NY): Deep-to-opaque ruby/red, this iteration of La Mission Haut-Brion, at this particular stage, is monolithic and has probably shut down. To be sure, there are aromas and flavors of black fruit, minerals, anise and tobacco, but they are overwhelmed by the wine's massive tannins. Freshly acidic and without alcoholic heat, there is solidity in the middle. The wine closes long but quite astringent. To my palate, this is "austerity" that would make the Grecian people feel lucky. It should substantially improve with time in the cellar, but I wonder if the fruit will be able to outlast the tannins. Drink 2025-2040.
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8/4/2014 - aquacongas Likes this wine: 93 Points
earth,cold wet stones, graves, pencil, reluctant typical bx nose, minerality, cherry, acidizy present, elegant, I'M missing some extract sweetness, good length, a bit too alcoholic for a bx, too young 3 hours decantation, follow up will be interesting
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8/2/2014 - Alex H wrote: 91 Points
Dark fruited with graphite and limestone acidity chalkiness. Very moreish and right bank like and as a critic rightly mentioned this is the Petrus on the left bank. Definitely very structured yet with that roundness and fruitiness as one would find in a delectable pomerol. Definitely needs time.
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2/5/2012 - Niagara wrote: 95 Points
Beautiful wine. Lots of presence, autumnal. Best '06 so far.
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12/10/2011 - RScholl wrote:
sold back to HDH auction
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10/21/2011 - cooberp wrote:
WS NY Wine Experience 5th Floor (Marriott Marquis Times Square): A little more giving on the nose than the 2006 Haut Brion, but not much. Tannic and sour in the mouth. Put this away for a decade.
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12/27/2009 - Philippe_C wrote: 95 Points
Nose of smoke, lead pencil, leather, vanill and black peper... in the month, black fruit, smoky, bacon, very ripe with good acidity
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10/24/2009 - amateurwino wrote: 95 Points
2006 Bordeaux Tastings; 10/24/2009-11/1/2009: Very tight - slight green in the flavor profile compared to HB but very nice, palate is quite round and good 94-95. Very similar on nose to Haut Brion, hard to distinguish. 2nd taste: round fruit on palate, very pretty nose. Best of tasting, by a hair over Haut-Brion; this has a tighter core of structure.
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10/24/2009 - Omar Khayyam Likes this wine: 96 Points
2006 Cru Classés de Graves with Prince Robert, M Delmas and Hugh Johnson (Sherry-Lehmann): What concentration of taste! full bodied, vanilla, tobacco and licorice, finegrained and mature but mouthcoating tannins. great freshness. for the long run.
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7/5/2009 - Wil wrote: 94 Points
Very good complexity. Well rounded, impressive finish. A touch of oak and vanilla but the finish is very impressive. Tasted blind.
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6/12/2009 - Jeff Leve wrote: 94 Points
This starts with plum, herb, tobacco and spice nose. The palate enjoys ripe, chocolate, cassis and plum flavors. There is ample tannin and body to allow the wine to age gracefully for decades.
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5/14/2009 - Edward A wrote: 93 Points
Binny's Chateau Haut-Brion Seminar (Binny's South Loop, Chicago, IL): Dark red color. Peppery nose with bright fruit. Powerful bold, strong tannins. Long finish. Still quite young.
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5/14/2009 - beezer6 wrote: 93 Points
Chateau Haut-Brion Seminar (Binny's South Loop - Chicago, IL): Etheral menthol aromas with spicy red raspberries also onthe nose.
Excellent representation of classic Old World 'terroir.'
Layered aromas of soy, chocolate, and pencil lead. Lively deep red flowers.
Palate is really really really young and super tight.
Some red vegetables on the palate like roasted red peppers. Elegant structured Bordeaux style.
Awesome acidity on the back end. Makes me want to take another sip...and another...
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