2024, Château Haut-Brion, PESSAC-LÉOGNAN, 1er Grand Cru Classé de Graves

Last year EP $678.00-

Bordeaux Blend: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc.

1st Growth.

Without doubt one of the world's greatest and most individual wine estates. The family traditions continue here with Jean-Philippe Delmas running the wine-making as his father and grandfather did before him and Clarence Dillon's great-grandson Robert de Luxembourg in overall charge of this wonderful property. Haut Brion is one of the most consistently great wines of Bordeaux. In 2024 the blend is 47.2% Cabernet Sauvignon, 37.5% Merlot and 15.3% Cabernet Franc. 

This year, the style of Haut Brion shows through with transparency, beautiful balance and precision. Fine austerity, with excellent minerality, dark olives and red and dark berries. Structured on the mid-palate. Beautiful depth for the vintage, with really fine-grained tannins and a lengthy finish that lingers. So much vibrancy and finesse. A classic vintage.
97-98 James Suckling

The 2024 Haut-Brion is dark and brooding in demeanour, but obviously not as tannic or forbidding as it can be in the early going. All the Haut-Brion signatures are very much present, but they're portrayed in a decidedly understated style that speaks to the personality of the year. Black fruit, earth, spice, tobacco and leather build with time in the glass. The 2024 is a super-classy Haut-Brion. There's gorgeous substance here. 2034 - 2054
94-96 Antonio Galloni, Vinous

Medium to full intensity, this is carefully built, slow and steady in its expression, textured, restrained, cocoa bean, espresso, redcurrant, orchard, sage, bilberry. Very much a classical style of Haut-Brion that will I am sure give great pleasure after a decade in bottle - not as monumental as some, but don't count this out - there are all the bones of this exceptional wine, and the tannic architecture will widen over ageing. 75% new oak. Jean-Pierre Masclef technical director and Jean-Pierre Delmas estate director.
94 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux.

Black and blue fruit, black olive and subtle sea spray scents emerge with time in the glass. The palate is medium-bodied, vibrant and focused, with fine tannins and an engaging underlying sapidity coming through with more weight and sustain on the finish. This is a very capable Haut-Brion that will not kowtow to the challenges of the 2024 season—rather, it seems to relish them. 2030 - 2055
93-95 Neal Martin, Vinous.