Haut Brion - 1995 (750ml) 2001 Anticipated maturity: now-2020

Anticipated maturity: now-2020

where dried fig and date notes take over

and in short

the Melbury

and certainly one of the most magnificent Gruaud-Larose ever made

Haut Brion - 1995 (750ml) 2001 Anticipated maturity: now-2020It is fun to go back and forth between the 1995 and 1996, two superb vintages for Haut Brion. The 1995 seems to have sweeter tannin and a bit more fat and seamlessness when compared to the more structured and muscular 1996. Certainly 1995 was a vintage that the brilliant administrator Jean Delmas handled flawlessly. The result is a deep ruby purple colored wine with a tight but promising nose of burning wood embers intermixed with vanilla, spice box,