Château Haut-Brion, Pessac-Léognan 2023

Deep purple, very velvety in appearance. Perfumed and expressive on the nose, with huge depth of blue black fruit, very primary and intense, the volume is really turned up here – super velvety and luxurious, with a light creamy, toasty note, some graphite. It sits on the palates so well, with nothing out of place, mixed fruits – blue berries, some red and dark skinned stone fruit with velvety extraction, silky tannins and bright acidity with great intensity of lightly grilled blackcurrant fruit on the mid palate, before the tannins wrap around and toasty grilled oak is just evident in the background. This is smooth and ripe, with structure and acidity to support, very pure fruit, ripe and intense (floral and blue fruited), velvety tannins and denser and more concentrated but never heavy, going to a long, mineral finish, on which the oak is already seamlessly integrated. Very complete wine. Drink 2032-2065