Chateau Haut-Brion Pessac Leognan 2012 sku_1854387 Limpid and brilliant pale straw

Limpid and brilliant pale straw colour

Very mineral finish

The fruit is youthfully blunt in its primary grape flavor

built in 1909

candied strawberry

Chateau Haut-Brion Pessac Leognan 2012 sku_1854387 Limpid and brilliant pale strawA big, powerful wine, the 2012 Haut Brion possesses stunning richness and intensity, with all of the depth that is lacking in so many other wines in this vintage. Not here. The 2012 possesses remarkable depth and tons of raw, animal power that is going to require considerable time in bottle to soften. Readers should be in no rush; the 2012 Haut Brion is a wine for the ages. Smoke, graphite, dried herbs and blue purplish stone fruits grace the exotic,