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Subregion | France > Bordeaux > Left Bank > Pessac-LĂ©ognan |
Colour | Red |
Type | Still |
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This wine is an immensely successful effort for the vintage, with elegance, sweetness, and a medium plum/garnet colour already beginning to show some lightening at the edge.It has developed quickly, although the wine has surprising fruit and personality for such a dreadful vintage. The wine shows good cedary, spice box, cigar and tobacco notes intermixed with minerals, sweet plum, and cherry.The finish is a bit short and attenuated, but the aromatics, attack and mid-palate are delicious.
Forty percent of the 1992 harvest was eliminated from Haut-Brion's final blend. The result is a stylish yet authoritatively flavored wine that reminds me of a slightly downsized version of the superb 1985. A beautiful deep-ruby color is followed by a penetrating bouquet of black fruits, smoke, and minerals. Fine ripness and outstanding richness allied to medium body, an elegant personality, and a supple, moderately tannic finish suggest this wine will be mature in 4-5 years and last for 12-20. A terrific success in 1992 !