1984 Château Laville Haut-Brion Blanc

Community Tasting Notes (10) Median Score: 88 points

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  8/29/2015 - Cote d'Or wrote:

  Tasted over 1 hr; from 375 mL, bottle and cork in good shape
  -med gold
  -caramel/butterscotch, lanolin
  -med+ acidity, med- weight, mostly oak on moderately long finish
  -certainly quite oxidized at this point but not quite dead thanks to the good acidity but very little left other than oak

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  7/16/2014 - Musigny151 wrote: 80 Points

  Served semi blind (the capsule is distinctive). Pretty weak, although the nose was interesting, and the wine for what it was, was certainly in good shape. But in 1984, Nature was not in a giving mood, and apparently La Mission was not in a taking one. The wine collapsed on the palate a quarter of the way in, and never recovered.

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  1/5/2014 - NickNYC Likes this wine: 88 Points

  second glass got better with a bit of air. Good but not great. Lack of length but still a bit of fruit and evolved character.

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  12/17/2013 - Jeff Leve wrote: 75 Points

  "Who's knocking at my doo"r said the 1984 Laville Haut Brion Blanc... It's death. There was a glimmer of fruit remaining, but that was hard to find. The wine was maderized. My advice, don't buy this for a birth year wine.

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  3/23/2013 - Dubie wrote: 88 Points

  Very oxydated. Not to my taste, but many people around the table liked it. An acquired taste.

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