Château Haut-Brion 2019 – Pessac-Léognan

The nose is elegant, currently discreetly tight (but this will fade over time) and offers precision, delicacy and harmonious power. It reveals notes of fresh quenette, bright white peach and fresh kumquat associated with touches of lemon blossoms, racy minerality, lemon as well as fine hints of mandarin blossoms and a subtle hint of fresh almond. The palate is fruity, elegant, delicate, racy, harmonious, tense (in delicacy) and offers precision, a nice freshness, minerality, roundness, a nice salinity, fat, unctuosity with freshness, a pretty tangy weft as well as a pretty side of “unrolling silk thread”. On the palate this wine expresses notes of juicy / pulpy lemon, juicy / pulpy mandarin and more slightly quenette associated with passion fruit, carambole as well as fine hints of crushed nectarine, racy minerality and with a very discreet hint of pepper (in the background). Presence of an imperceptible hint of vanilla on the aftertaste.