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Château Haut-Brion Graves Red Bordeaux Blend 2005 (1500ml)
This is incredible on the nose, showing coffee cake, blackberry, floral, coffee bean and vanilla bean, with Chinese spices. A very complex, full-bodied red, with seamless, hyperpolished tannins that caress every millimeter of the palate. Lasts for minutes. So beautifully balanced, I'm left speechless. Is it even better than the 1989? Wine Spectator
Ratings on Delectable
Tom Kobylarz 
To me the most complex wine of the night offering a deep cerebral experience, with what I thought of as a berry bouquet garni was the 2000 Haut-Brion. The most contemplative, while also a deeply pleasurable wine, offered layers of classic Bordeaux notes of toast, coffee, currants, cassis, subtle & smokey campfire embers, cigar box...the list goes on and most of that was in the nose. The palate was texturally seamless, packed and stacked with structure that never got in the way, though you would notice it on the finish letting you know it was there. 2005 was locked up and unrelenting at first, the second go an hour later was more repenting but it was still not nudging much. A thoroughly excellent wine, but just not revealing much beyond the hints of its greatness. #hautbrion #pessacleognan #bordeaux #wine
To me the most complex wine of the night offering a deep cerebral experience, with what I thought of as a berry bouquet garni was the 2000 Haut-Brion. The most contemplative, while also a deeply pleasurable wine, offered layers of classic Bordeaux notes of toast, coffee, currants, cassis, subtle & smokey campfire embers, cigar box...the list goes on and most of that was in the nose. The palate was texturally seamless, packed and stacked with structure that never got in the way, though you would notice it on the finish letting you know it was there. 2005 was locked up and unrelenting at first, the second go an hour later was more repenting but it was still not nudging much. A thoroughly excellent wine, but just not revealing much beyond the hints of its greatness. #hautbrion #pessacleognan #bordeaux #wine
9.4
Jeremy Noye
CEO Morrell & Company
A star of the evening. So much grace and substance.
A star of the evening. So much grace and substance.
9.7
GaYoung Kim
Graileys Fine Wines. Sommelier. Broker
It was such a baby!!!
It was such a baby!!!
9.3Stephanie Kendall
Thank you very much!
Thank you very much!
9.4
Jeff Lander
Sadly corked. Better to find out young.
Sadly corked. Better to find out young.
6.5
Peter C
Infanticide.
Infanticide.
9.3
Jason Schulz
As good a wine as I've had. Pure balance
As good a wine as I've had. Pure balance
10
Ryan O'Connor
Thanksgiving * 2!
Thanksgiving * 2!
9.3Kashy Khaledi
Popped it 5 years too early. Stiff as fuck. BUT, a cacophony of mind-bending complexity unlike anything I have ever tried. Paired it with Terry Gilliam's "Zero Theorem". Actually, both are 5 years ahead of their time and play up the cerebral to the limit.
Popped it 5 years too early. Stiff as fuck. BUT, a cacophony of mind-bending complexity unlike anything I have ever tried. Paired it with Terry Gilliam's "Zero Theorem". Actually, both are 5 years ahead of their time and play up the cerebral to the limit.
10
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