the deep garnet-purple colored 2009 Cos d'Estournel takes a little coaxing to encourage the full array of exotic spices and decadent black fruits to emerge here: crème de cassis

the 2020 vintage appears dark

white peach and yuzu notes with accents of musk perfume

one of the finest wines I've encountered at this address

The wine is aged in French oak

Chateau Haut-Brion, Pessac-Leognan, 2022, 75cl Løse flasker the deep garnet-purple colored 2009The 2022 Haut Brion, which was bottled in May 2024, lives up to the high expectations I had set for it and then some. Revealing a dense, complex and precise bouquet of dark berries, pencil lead, cedar box, rose and spices intertwined with discreet notes of oak, it's full bodied, dense and concentrated, with a muscular chassis of tannins and an enveloping core of fruit that retains energy and purity, concluding with youthful grip. Given the inherent