Château Haut-Brion Pessac-Léognan Red Bordeaux Blend 1989

Conrad Green

This is all it’s meant to be. Great deep fruit. Some tar and tobacco and iron and gnarly pure fruit. So complex and involved. A punch of salinity and iodine on the finish. Great

Conrad Green

So gnarly and violet and intense. Iron and dark plum and leather with blood and forest floor. So complex and delicious

Conrad Green

From mag. Meaty with dark gnarly fruit. Very pure and intense. Lovely savory midpalate. Amusing and long.

Garen Staglin

Perfect. Complex nose. Nice mouth feel. Not many years left.

Conrad Green

Gorgeous plush spectacular fruit. Plum, deep sexy black cherry. Really lush and delicious. Great

Peter van den Besselaar

Vintage 1989 | 3/4 transparant, Italian rooftiles brown rim. A very intense bouquet: cedar, forrest wood, laurel, flint, cherries, só multi layered you tend to smell endless. Powerful taste, prominent bitters, still too young imo, the taste comes together with the entrecôte, awesome harmony. A benchmark for wine lovers. Fine that HB delivers to mark a special moment! I bought this when my daughter was born | at restaurant Pollevie

Ed Lehrman

Very good but was expecting more. Seemed a little tired.

Mark Royer

Classic pencil, slight cedar, hint of bell pepper . Still going strong

Matt Duncan

Much better than the last bottle. Cork was ideal and maintained round quality last bottle lacked. Still not quite as defined as the 1990 at this point, but a real treat all the same.

Mike Saviage

Wanted to put up a future all-time great against two all-time great HBs... the 45 and the 61. Opened and decanted this 9 hours before serving. Light tawny color, translucent and darker than the other HBs. Intense nose with notes of black cherry, black raspberry, hickory, gravel, moist soil, some mocha and some menthol. Huge and powerful in the mouth. Still tannic and young at age 31. Almost port-like. This is easily a 75 year wine, like the 45 sitting next to it - a wine that it can probably surpass as it gains more age, weight, advanced notes and complexity. (Bday 11 of 13)