Cart 2000 Chateau Haut Brion Pessac-Leognan
Average Price: $825.00 
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| Style: | Red Wine |
| Grape Type: | Bordeaux Blend |
| Region: | Bordeaux |
About Chateau Haut Brion
Chateau Haut-Brion may be the most famous chateau of Graves and one of the great names in French wine history, but it's not resting on its laurels. Located within the city limits of Bordeaux, this estate has arguably been producing the most consistently outstanding Bordeaux red ov... more
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1er Cru Classe. Haut-Brion more than upholds its reputation as one of the finest of the Left Bank Bordeaux with this powerful and remarkably refined offering. From its intense, slightly minerally, cassis-like aromas to it sturdy, fully fleshed-out flavors, its expression of Cabernet from the Graves is close to perfect, and its combination of potency and grace separates it from its equally rich, but rather more blustery, California relations. Never one for early drinking, it finishes firmly with a slight pucker and tannins to spare, and it needs to be set aside for at least eight to ten years.
Full red-ruby. Roasted plum, currant, tobacco and minerals on the nose. Compellingly dense and thick but almost miraculously lively and light on its feet. Has a texture like liquid velvet, coating the entire palate. Wonderfully unmanipulated wine, with perfectly integrated acids giving it superb subtle vinosity and thrust. Finishes with outstanding building persistence, with the substantial tannins perfectly supported by the wine's fat middle.
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Shizzle
By Horris12040924, July 06, 2006
This is the most shizzlerific wine ever, i get it all the time cuz im a big spenda bling bling all the homies!
This is the most shizzlerific wine ever, i get it all the time cuz im a big spenda bling bling all the homies!
The best Red Graves wine
By BoboChamp, November 11, 2003
other vintages : 1999 : 4 1998 : 5 1997 : 3 1996 : 4 1995 : 5 general note : 19.5 / 20 A myth!
other vintages : 1999 : 4 1998 : 5 1997 : 3 1996 : 4 1995 : 5 general note : 19.5 / 20 A myth!
Haut Brion Rouge Outclasses The Medoc and Cheval Blanc in an Amazing 2000 Horizontal
By Trailside, May 19, 2003
If you're looking for the best place to purchase wine en primeur, Japan, bar none, outdoes any other country. I won't mention the leading vendor here--for it might reek of a sales pitch--but it certainly does a classy job of handling the orders (with respect to futures, online only) and getting the wine to the consumer. If you don't live in Japan, however, this advantage does not apply to you. All that aside, thanks to the reasonable price of the wine (about 166 dollars/bottle), a fellow en primeur friend and I decided to do an event probably not yet done too much here in Japan: a horizontal blind tasting of all Bordeaux's 2000 1st Growths and the highly rated 2000 Cheval Blanc. After ten minutes, my blood was wired with polyphenol and happiness, and it became increasingly difficult to distinguish one wine from the next. Aside from the Cheval Blanc, whose absence of Cabernet sauvignon gave itself away, the only truly salient feature that enabled one of the remaining wines to stand out from the rest, even after numerous tastings without spitting, was a much-needed presence of acidity which cut through the fat of such a cloying vintage. I thought Margaux, but I was wrong. It was the Haut Brion. By far the best balanced of the 5 First Growths, this Haut Brion will please even now (if you've got the courage to test it). But how well will it please from now? This is where the number of bottles purchased often dictates if or when we dare to taste such ambrosia. My advice: wait if you dare. The wine will indeed evolve (for the better) for God knows how many decades; but will you?
If you're looking for the best place to purchase wine en primeur, Japan, bar none, outdoes any other country. I won't mention the leading vendor here--for it might reek of a sales pitch--but it certainly does a classy job of handling the orders (with respect to futures, online only) and getting the wine to the consumer. If you don't live in Japan, however, this advantage does not apply to you. All that aside, thanks to the reasonable price of the wine (about 166 dollars/bottle), a fellow en primeur friend and I decided to do an event probably not yet done too much here in Japan: a horizontal blind tasting of all Bordeaux's 2000 1st Growths and the highly rated 2000 Cheval Blanc. After ten minutes, my blood was wired with polyphenol and happiness, and it became increasingly difficult to distinguish one wine from the next. Aside from the Cheval Blanc, whose absence of Cabernet sauvignon gave itself away, the only truly salient feature that enabled one of the remaining wines to stand out from the rest, even after numerous tastings without spitting, was a much-needed presence of acidity which cut through the fat of such a cloying vintage. I thought Margaux, but I was wrong. It was the Haut Brion. By far the best balanced of the 5 First Growths, this Haut Brion will please even now (if you've got the courage to test it). But how well will it please from now? This is where the number of bottles purchased often dictates if or when we dare to taste such ambrosia. My advice: wait if you dare. The wine will indeed evolve (for the better) for God knows how many decades; but will you?
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Average rating: 5.00 (4 ratings) 