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Tour Haut Brion 2004

Pessac-Leognan, Grand Cru Classé

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Tasting Notes

Smooth and subtle and lovely and briary, really confident. Bravo! Just a slight touch of obvious oak.

Score: 17 - 18

Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com Maturity: 2012-2020 28 July 2009

This has a lovely nose with blackberry, cedar, briary and wild hedgerow with great clarity. The palate does not quite live up to expectation but is still commendable, quite feminine for this property, harmonious and more open than out of barrel. Earthy black fruits, but it is the finish that just falls short, rather monolithic three years ago and the same here. As always with the now extinguished property, it may surprise throughout its evolution. I am cautiously optimistic! Drink 2011-2020. Tasted November 2008.

Score: 90

Neal Martin, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2011-2020 01 March 2009

Only 2,000 cases were produced of the 2004 La Tour Haut-Brion, which is the estate’s next to last vintage as the entire vineyard was absorbed into La Mission-Haut-Brion in 2006. In that vintage, virtually the entire production of La Tour Haut-Brion was utilized for La Mission’s second wine, La Chapelle de la Mission. The elegant 2004 La Tour Haut-Brion exhibits resiny notes intermixed with blueberries, cherries, and earth. While pinched in the finish and displaying austere tannin, it is a fresh, elegant, restrained effort that should evolve for 10-15 years.

Score: 88

Robert Parker, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2007-2022 01 June 2007

Deep red. Plum, mocha, smoke and a whiff of caramel on the nose. Lush, round and deep for the vintage: there's something almost Burgundian about this wine's silky flavors of cherry, raspberry, smoke and spices but the wine is still a bit youthfully unforthcoming. Finishes with fine, late-arriving tannins and lingering notes of dark raspberry, smoke, minerals and earth. A superb showing.

Score: 90

Stephen Tanzer, International Wine Cellar 01 May 2007

Very pretty aromas of fresh fruit and chocolate. Medium- to full-bodied, with fresh fruit, silky tannins and a long, caressing finish. Delicious and solid. Best after 2010. 2,000 cases made.

Score: 90

James Suckling, Wine Spectator Maturity: 2010+ 31 March 2007