Details
Château Haut-Brion--Vintage 1945
.Pessac (Graves), 1er cru classé.
.Fine overall appearance. Levels: lot AAA two top, one just below, two upper shoulder. One bin soiled label. Lot BBB five top, one just below top, four upper, one mid/upper, one mid shoulder. Two labels slightly torn, one soiled, the others with slight soiling.
."One of Haut-Brion's best-ever vintages... It seems to have regained depth of colour with age, again almost opaque but with mature amber rim. On nose and palate, it is different from its Medoc peers. More earthy, but not in a clodhopping way, and with a tobacco-like element to its taste. The bouquet variously described as gently and fragrant, sweet, vanilla and chocolate, warm, spicy, complete - and always remarkably good. Pretty full-bodied, yet velvety, with loads of sweetening and enriching alcohol, its tannin masked by richness and extract. Great length, wonderful aftertaste. Five stars." GVWB
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.Pessac (Graves), 1er cru classé.
.Fine overall appearance. Levels: lot AAA two top, one just below, two upper shoulder. One bin soiled label. Lot BBB five top, one just below top, four upper, one mid/upper, one mid shoulder. Two labels slightly torn, one soiled, the others with slight soiling.
."One of Haut-Brion's best-ever vintages... It seems to have regained depth of colour with age, again almost opaque but with mature amber rim. On nose and palate, it is different from its Medoc peers. More earthy, but not in a clodhopping way, and with a tobacco-like element to its taste. The bouquet variously described as gently and fragrant, sweet, vanilla and chocolate, warm, spicy, complete - and always remarkably good. Pretty full-bodied, yet velvety, with loads of sweetening and enriching alcohol, its tannin masked by richness and extract. Great length, wonderful aftertaste. Five stars." GVWB
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