Duty Paid zero vat per 3 Bottles
"Cellar Tracker 21/07/2020
92 Points (Decanted for two hours)
Deep red colour with lovely maturing nose showing violets, liquorice and some oak. Softening tannins on the palate showing starting to show some dried fruit and with a nice and smooth vanilla oak touch on the intense finish. This has evolved very well and is perfect with some extra time in the decanter to open up."
This was the name of the second wine of Ch Haut Brion until 2007 when it was rechristended as Le Clarence de Haut Brion. The grapes for this wine are grown on the very same vines as those for the Grand Vin. 20-25% is matured in new oak casks for 18-22 months and the remainder in casks which were previously used for the Grand Vin. The style is of a scaled down, lighter version of Haut Brion which generally starts drinking five years after vintage as opposed to ten years for the Grand Vin.
