La Clarté de Haut-Brion 2018 – Pessac-Léognan

The nose is fruity and offers juiciness as well as a small fleshiness. It reveals notes of ripe pink grapefruit, peach and small notes of apple associated with small touches of ripe lemon, fine hints of racy minerality (in the background), toasted, almond as well as a very discreet hint of grilled bread and an imperceptible hint of vanilla flower. The palate is fruity, well-balanced and offers a good definition/precision, juiciness, a fine acidulous, a beautiful tension, freshness, fullness as well as a mineral frame. On the palate this wine expresses notes of ripelemon, peach/ripe brugnon and small notes of ripe pink grapefruit associated with small touches of apple, very fine hints of flowers, gravels/terroir and an imperceptible hint of zest on the finish/persistence.