Chateau Haut-Brion's vineyard is located in the commune of Pessac, just a few miles southwest of Bordeaux's city center.It belongs to the Pessac-Léognan appellation, to the north of the Graves wine-growing region. A Birthday or anniversary gift ideaTasting notes, Robert Parker, 89 points
This wine has turned out far better than I ever expected. It started off life relatively austere, closed, and tannic, and seemed a bit light, but the wine has put on weight (as so many vintages of Haut-Brion tend to do), and now shows a very complex nose of cigar tobacco intermixed with scorched earth, sweet cherry and black currant fruit, and some high quality toast. The wine is medium-bodied and a great example of finesse, elegance, and just brilliant winemaking in a vintage where the odds were stacked against even a great terroir such as Haut Brion.
