1987 Château Haut-Brion

Community Tasting Notes (21) Avg Score: 92.4 points

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  3/3/2023 - Eric Wright Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Very funky nose on pnp. After an hour, the nose blew off and was drinkable. Palate is clearly a high quality producer - balanced and elegant. Notes are mint, olive, little fruit left. The production quality is evident, but ultimately not worth the cost. Likely a vintage specific issue...

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  12/20/2021 - Cailles wrote: 92 Points

  11x Bdx & Bdx Blends from around the World: Tasted double blind. This is a solid wine but even Haut Brion can’t work a miracle in such weak vintage. The wine had still a nice fruit component but overall had a subpar precision and medium complexity. My guess was either a big name in a weak vintage or a small name in a weak vintage. Still the group voted it as number two out of ten wines (but I suspect the reveal of the label might have influenced the scores a bit).
  
  TN: Expressive nose, not hyper clean with tertiary aromas, dark and dark red fruit shining through. Much better on the palate. Expressive, intense with dark red fruits, red fruits, and some more blue fruits on the attack, ripe but not too ripe, medium sweetness, herbs and minerality. The structure is without fault with fine tannins, a good freshness, a slightly creamy texture and a medium long finish with herbs, red fruits and minerality. This lacks a bit of depth but mostly the definition and the nose are subpar.
  
  Decanting: I don’t think that this has been decanted (but I don’t know it). It didn’t change a lot in the glass and my guess is a short decant is sufficient for this vintage.
  
  Group rank (9 ppl.): 2nd out of 10 wines

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  12/4/2021 - La Sprezzatura wrote: 95 Points

  very tertiary, with tobacco and leather plus some barnyard. fruit almost gone but still here.
  
  on the palate very nice drink flow, high and balanced acidity. this is ready now. full of finesse and elegance. absolutely my style.

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  12/4/2021 - J_H Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Weinkongress 2021 (Restaurant Sonne Leuggern): - tasted blind (next to Gruaud Larose 2000 and Mandotte 1998).
  - Nose: Less intense (medium) in the fruit spectrum, mainly red fruit can be detected. Is marked by a lot of tobacco and meaty aromas. Not super structured on the nose.
  - Palate: nice mouthfeel, velvety tannins (medium) and good acidity (medium +)), nice to drink!
  The very tobacco nose dissipates a bit here. Medium + on the finish, however, is still fresh and awesome to drink. Not too structured and complex.
  -93 points

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  12/4/2021 - sirpat00 wrote: 92 Points

  Tasted double-blind as part of a random mixed Bordeaux-blend line-up. Tobacco and spices, a bit of Williams, dry leaves. Good tension, fresh acidity and nicely integrated aging notes, but was lacking layers and fruit and the texture has thinned out quite a bit. Clearly the weakest performance of the off-vintage Haut-Brions in that decade with less structure and more past its prime than 1980 or 1985.

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