【One of the top five wineries in Bordeaux—Chateau Haut Brion】
【Chateau Haut Brion First Class Classified Chateau Second Label White Wine】
【James Suckling 94 pts】【Wine Spectator 93 pts】
【Wine Enthusiast 93 pts】【Jeb Dunnuck 92 pts】
【Vinous 91 pts】【Robert Parker 90 pts】
【Jancis Robinson 17.5/20】
ZTF987B - La Clarte de HautBrion Blanc 2015
Price: $695/bottle
Region: Bordeaux/Pessac-Leognan
Grape varieties: 73% Semillon, 27% Sauvignon Blanc
Alcohol content: 14%
The second-label white wine from Chateau Haut Brion - La Clarte is a very attractive wine with absolutely guaranteed quality. Expressive citrus aromas, especially grapefruit, with hints of lemon. Immediately after entering the mouth, you can feel the rich fruity flavor, accompanied by the fresh lemongrass aroma. After aging in 55% new oak barrels, it has a medium taste, crisp acidity, and sufficient depth and flavor.
【James Suckling 94 pts】
Lots of minerals and stones here. Full-bodied withphenolic tension and lime, lemon and chalk flavors. Layered and joyous. Just the right lees stirring. Why wait? Drink now.
【Robert Parker 90 pts】
This is effectively a combined second wine of Chateau Haut-Brion Blanc and La Mission Haut-Brion Blanc, which prior to 2009 was known as Les Plantiers du Haut-Brion. A blend of 27% Sauvignon Blanc and73% Semillon and redolent of ripe peaches, pink grapefruit and baking breadwith touches of orange blossoms and crushed stones, the intense, satinytextured 2015 La Clarté de Haut-Brion Blanc offers up a lively palate lacedwith mineral accents and finishing with impressive persistence.
【One of the top five wineries in Bordeaux - Chateau Haut Brion】
Chateau Haut Brion is located in the Pessac-Leognan region of Graves, Bordeaux. It is the only winery located outside the Medoc region in the 1855 Classification and ranks among the first growths. In addition, the winery has also been rated Crus Classes de Graves, and its red and white wines are on the list of Bordeaux's top wines. As one of the top wineries in the French wine industry, Chateau Haut-Brion has never lacked praise and praise. Robert Parker alone has given its wines full marks eight times. In the "Power 100" brand ranking list announced by the London International Wine Exchange in the past ten years, Chateau Haut-Brion has been among the top ten on the list for many years.
Le Clarence de Haut Brion is the second wine of the 1855 First Growth Chateau Haut-Brion. Chateau Haut-Brion is one of the legendary wineries among the Bordeaux Grand Cru Classés—it is the only winery among the 61 Bordeaux Grand Cru Classés that is not in the Medoc, and the only one in Bordeaux that specializes in red and white wines. A winery with an ambidextrous Bordeaux wine list. In addition, although it is the smallest winery among the five famous Bordeaux wineries, it is the earliest to become famous, and its successive owners include many nobles and celebrities.
Before the 2007 vintage, this second-label wine had been called Chateau Bahans Haut Brion, and was later renamed Le Clarence de Haut Brion in commemoration of Clarence Dillon and his family’s successful purchase of the estate in 1935.
