Château Haut-Brion 2019 – Pessac-Léognan

The nose is elegant, fruity, precise, racy, beautifully built, beautifully complex and offers a juicy/ripe fruit, a beautiful finesse of the grain and a small intensity. It reveals notes of pulpy/juicy lemon, white peach, small notes of lemon flowers associated with fine touches of juicy/fresh mandarine, quenette as well as very fine hints of white flowers, white lilac, a discreet hint of fresh gravels and pepper. The palate is fruity, elegant and offers a beautiful definition/matter, freshness, deepness, complexity, a small almoste aerial side, a beautiful racy minerality, delicacy, a beautiful finesse of the fat/suavity as well as a good definition. On the palate this wine expresses notes of pulpy/juicy apple, fleshy/juicy pear, small notes of juicy lemon associated with small touches of flowers (lemon blossom, lilac flowers, small white flowers), kumquat, fresh gravels/racy minerality, quenette as well as subtle almost iodine hints, pineapple, toasted almond, an imperceptible hint of sweet spices / toasted (in the background). Good length. A beautiful persistence.