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2016 Ch Haut-Brion Blanc Bordeaux - 6x75cl
05B6HAUB6PK _ 2016 - Ch Haut-Brion Blanc Bordeaux - 6x75cl
  • Colour White
  • Producer Château Haut-Brion
  • Region Bordeaux
  • Grape Semillon / Sauvignon Blanc
  • Drinking 2020 - 2032
  • Case size 6x75cl
  • Available

2016 - Ch Haut-Brion Blanc Bordeaux - 6x75cl

  • Colour White
  • Producer Château Haut-Brion
  • Region Bordeaux
  • Grape Semillon / Sauvignon Blanc
  • Drinking 2020 - 2032
  • Case size 6x75cl
  • Available

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  • Goedhuis, April 2017, Score: 96-98

    70.5% Sauvignon Blanc, 29.5% Sémillon. Pale lemon yellow. This has spicy notes of crystallised ginger on the nose, with juicy peach fruit and zingy pineapple. The palate has both power and a long elegant finish, with well-balanced acidity. CP

  • Goedhuis, April 2017, Score: 96-98

    70.5% Sauvignon Blanc, 29.5% Sémillon. Pale lemon yellow. This has spicy notes of crystallised ginger on the nose, with juicy peach fruit and zingy pineapple. The palate has both power and a long elegant finish, with well-balanced acidity. CP

  • Neal Martin, April 2017, Score: 92-94

    The Haut Brion 2016 Blanc is a blend of 70.5% Sauvignon Blanc and 29.5% Sémillon picked from 1-13 September. I found a little more complexity and mineralité here compared to the La Mission Haut-Brion Blanc this year, scents of chalk and lime flower complementing the citrus fruit. The palate is medium-bodied with crisp tannin, notes of lime cordial, orange zest and grapefruit, almost flinty towards the finish that lingers long in the mouth with great vigor from start to finish. This is excellent, but not the best Haut Brion Blanc that I have tasted in recent years. Drink Date 2020 - 2045

  • Antonio Galloni, April 2017, Score: 93-96

    The 2016 Haut-Brion Blanc is rich, ample and captivatingly beautiful. A wine that fills every corner of the palate with its intensity and breadth, the 2016 represents one the few peaks of true excellence among the whites of the year. The blend is 69% Sauvignon and 31% Sémillon, but above all else, Haut-Brion Blanc is a wine of place. That is especially evident when tasting it next to the La Mission Haut-Brion Blanc, which is so clearly Sauvignon Blanc-dominated, whereas the Haut-Brion Blanc maintains a great deal of its own personality and signatures. In the glass, the 2016 is voluptuous, racy and impossible to resist.

  • Matthew Jukes, April 2017, Score: 19.5++

    Picked before the rain and made from a predominance of Sauvignon Blanc for the first time ever, this is a historic wine and it is also a thriller. It is heretical to say, but if Montrachet was planted to Sauvignon Blanc it might taste like this. Thanks heavens it is not, so this is the only place on earth where you can taste this flavour. It is atypical, awe-inspiring and never-ending. The fruit is searingly dry but also bitingly fresh and layered. The oak is sublime - I could eat a stave for lunch. The finish stayed with me for a few days. It is sheer heaven in a glass.

  • Tim Atkin, April 2017, Score: 96

    There’s very little of this wine produced - and what’s made isn’t cheap - but it’s one of the great whites of the world, even in a tricky vintage when acidity was at a premium. Broad, textured and intense, with leesy richness, stylish oak and a saline flourish. 2020-32

Producer

Château Haut-Brion

Arguably the oldest recognised Bordeaux grand cru, Haut Brion has been owned by the American Dillon family since 1935. The Château was an early moderniser - the first estate to implement steel vats in 1961 - and over the years, their incredible investments have re-established the inherent quality of this property, enabling it to emerge as possibly the most consistent first growth since the 1980s. Situated in Pessac-Léognan ...Read more

Arguably the oldest recognised Bordeaux grand cru, Haut Brion has been owned by the American Dillon family since 1935. The Château was an early moderniser - the first estate to implement steel vats in 1961 - and over the years, their incredible investments have re-established the inherent quality of this property, enabling it to emerge as possibly the most consistent first growth since the 1980s. Situated in Pessac-Léognan in Graves, the estate is the only classified growth located outside the Médoc. Château Haut Brion has the most Merlot and the most Cabernet Franc of any of the First Growths and the second wine is Le Clarence de Haut-Brion, known as Ch Bahans Haut Brion prior to 2007.Read less

Region

Bordeaux

When the Romans first planted a few vines on the limestone outcrops of St Emilion in the early years of the first century, and tasted what was, by all accounts, rather thin, bitter wine, they can hardly have imagined that the region's greatest red wines would become the most sought afterfine wines in the world. From the days in the seventeenth century when the then owners of Ch Haut Brion, the de Pontac family, became the first to export to the UK, selling their wine in their own tavern, the Pontac's Head, red Bordeaux or claret has been the Englishman's favourite. The wines of the 1855 Classification are merely the tip of the iceberg. Bordeaux AC accounts for about half of all wine produced in the area, from vineyards outside the regional or communal appelations and often blended by the negociant houses. Simpler beasts these although still clearly related to their more illustrious cousins - relatively light and fresh, full of fruit, with soft tannins making for delicious, and good value, early drinking.

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