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Chateau Haut-Brion 2024
Standard - 75cl
ETA: +2 years
ETA: +2 years
Fine Wine Library - Tasted En Primeur April 2024
We started our Chateau visits with Haut-Brion in Pessac as the first visit. What a way to start the week. The terroir of Haut-Bion is well ventilated and therefore the mildew on the merlot was eliminated before it became a problem. Great tension, texture and body whilst being elegant and refined. The fruit purity here is exceptional. A tonne of red and dark fruits. The winery compared the 2024 vintage to 2021, 2017 and 2014. Today the La Mission was the more aromatic and open but the Haut-Brion was the more serious, structured and the aromatics will come with time in the cellar. With prices expected to be reasonable, both HB and La Mission could be good recommendations.
- Vintage2024
- ColourRed
- ProducerChateau Haut-Brion
- CountryFrance
- RegionBordeaux
- Sub RegionPessac-Leognan
- DesignationAOP
- Bottle SizeStandard - 75cl
- ABV13.5
- LWIN10112472024
Wine Critic Reviews
This year, the style of Haut Brion shows through with transparency, beautiful balance and precision. Fine austerity, with excellent minerality, dark olives and red and dark berries. Structured on the mid-palate. Beautiful depth for the vintage, with really fine-grained tannins and a lengthy finish that lingers. So much vibrancy and finesse. A classic vintage.
Deep garnet-purple colored. Needs a lot of shaking to wake up scents of crushed black currants, red currant jelly, and boysenberries, followed by hints of Sichuan pepper, garrigue, and crushed rocks. The medium-bodied palate has a firm texture of ripe, fine-grained tannins and great freshness framing the tightly wound, mineral-laced fruits, finishing on a lingering ferrous note.
- Reviewer Name: Lisa Perrotti-Brown
I wouldn't be surprised to see the 2024 Château Haut-Brion be the wine of the vintage, and while it's not going to make you forget any of the recent truly great releases, it has more depth, suppleness, and charm than the vast majority of wines in the vintage. Ripe blackcurrants, scorched earth, graphite, crushed stone, and violets all define the aromatics, and it has nicely integrated oak, a layered, ripe, seamless mouthfeel, and building tannins. It's a beautiful, layered, elegant Haut-Brion.
- Reviewer Name: Jeb Dunnuck
The 2024 Haut-Brion is dark and brooding in demeanor, but obviously not as tannic or forbidding as it can be in the early going. All the Haut-Brion signatures are very much present, but they're portrayed in a decidedly understated style that speaks to the personality of the year. Black fruit, scorched earth, spice, tobacco and leather build with time in the glass. The 2024 is a super-classy Haut-Brion. There's gorgeous substance here.
- Reviewer Name: Antonio Galloni
The 2024 Haut-Brion, which contains more Cabernet Franc this year from a high-performing vat, has an altogether more polished, powerful and fruit-driven bouquet than La Mission at the moment. Black and blue fruit, black olive and subtle sea spray scents emerge with time in the glass. The palate is medium-bodied, vibrant and focused, with fine tannins and an engaging underlying sapidity coming through with more weight and sustain on the finish. This is a very capable Haut-Brion that will not kowtow to the challenges of the 2024 season—rather, it seems to relish them.
- Reviewer Name: Neal Martin
Sweet floral and red berry scents on the nose - cherry sweets and perfume. Succulent and massy in the mouth, this has flesh and muscle - generous and plentiful with a sweet and cool, spiced edge to the fruit. Clean and pure, lacking a touch in definition, but good length and push. Dried herbs, cherry stone and cranberry fruit with some sweet tobacco on the finish. I like the filling texture, but it tapers towards the finish and loses a bit of momentum in terms of density. Enjoyable minty, cola, liquorice minerality. Feels quite classic and should expand over ageing. 3.6pH. 1.7% press wine. 75% new oak.
- Reviewer Name: Georgina Hindle