2009 Haut Brion Blanc (750ml) (FUTURE ARRIVAL)

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WINE IS DUE TO ARRIVE IN 2011-13

Vintage: 2009
Format: 750ml
Wine Name: Haut Brion Blanc
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Designation:
Appellation: Pessac-Leognan
Producer: Haut Brion Blanc
Varietal: Red Bordeaux Blend
Type: Red
Country: France
Region: Bordeaux
Sub-Region: Graves

Tasting note: 62% of sauvignon give this wine a tension on the palate that cannot be found in La Mission Haut Brion Blanc. Showing a yellow green color, this wine is distinguished by a fine, fruity and fresh nose, with characteristics of lime and anis. Fat on entry, it then performs by developing powerful and juicy. The 2009 Haut Brion Blanc melts on the palate, both complex and very tasty before finishing over a surprising fine taste in which freshness and unctuousness mingle beautifully. A world apart in terms of aromas. (92-93pts. Jean-Marc Quarin)

Tasted: Mar. 2010
Score: 92-93pts.
Drink: N/A

Tasting note: Bright straw with some gold. Pretty, heavily semillon-influenced aromas of beeswax, white peach and spicy candied pear. Smooth and a bit youthfully simple, with flavors similar to the aromas, this is a lovely, refreshing mouthful of wine. Perhaps just a little dilute on the moderately persistent finish, but this delicious wine will be hard to resist over the near term. Previously called Les Plantiers du Haut-Brion, La Clarte is the new name for the second white wine of Haut-Brion and La Mission Haut-Brion. Always produced in vintages when one of the two top growths is declassified (for example, in 1974 and 1990 Les Plantiers was entirely made up of declassified Haut-Brion), this second wine has tended to be a mixture of the two wines since 1992. Interestingly, as this '09 version is mainly declassified semillon from Haut-Brion (only one very small lot of sauvignon blanc from Haut-Brion was downgraded), the bottle shape for La Clarte this year is the same as that of Haut-Brion. (87-89pts. ID, International Wine Cellar)

Tasted: N/A
Score: 87-89pts.
Drink: N/A