2021 Château Haut-Brion Blanc, Cru Classé Pessac-Léognan

2021 Château Haut-Brion Blanc, Cru Classé Pessac-Léognan

Tasted April 2022. Potentially the white wine of the vintage, and certainly one of the finest Bordeaux whites we've ever tasting. This is electric, full of energy, exuberant and full of bright and ripe citrus, mango, pineapple. It manages to be broad and rich, but full of tension at the same time. Truly world class.

Critic score
95/100 info

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Wine details

  • Region & country
    Pessac-Léognan, Graves, Bordeaux, France
  • Maturity
    Young 2028 - 2052info
  • Colour
    White
  • Sweetness
    Dry
  • Style
    Still
  • Unit Volume
    Bottle (75cl.)
  • ABV
    13%

Tasting notes

The 2021 Haut-Brion Blanc also shows considerable promise, offering up aromas of pink grapefruit, nectarine and crisp orchard fruits mingled with notions of freshly baked bread, pastry cream and beeswax. Full-bodied, fleshy and enveloping, it's satiny and seamless, with a broader-shoulders, more muscular profile than La Mission's white but similarly vibrant acids. At this early stage, this would appear to be one of the two or three finest Haut-Brion whites of the last 20 years.

William Kelley, Wine Advocate, Issue #260 (April 2022)
(94—96+)/100

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