Château HAUT-BRION 2022

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Yves Beck 100 points www.yvesbeck.wine

Dégusté le 10.12.2024 par Yves Beck

La fraîcheur et la précision affichée d’emblée annoncent la couleur ! Elles posent les jalons de manière magistrale, sereine, avec moult nuances dédiées à la subtilité et à la haute définition. Dense et fin en attaque, le vin se révèle avec une improbable sérénité. Il est puissant, profond, lucide et conscient de ses aptitudes. Ainsi, il s’installe confortablement et est transporté par une force tranquille, respectivement des tannins parfaitement intégrés qui assurent non seulement les assises, mais qui confèrent une extraordinaire fraîcheur tout en prenant soin d’étirer la finale. Certainement une des très grandes réussites du millésime !  2029-2072  

Jean-Marc Quarin 98 www.quarin.com
Couleur noire. Nez intense, fin, fruité et pour une fois à cet âge, avec la nuance fumée typique de Pessac. Ample à l’attaque, délicieusement parfumé en milieu de bouche, accompagné d’une nuance grasse dans le toucher, le vin évolue un brin ferme en finale et parallèlement très aromatique. Grande longueur. Assemblage : 53,6 % merlot, 35,4 % cabernet sauvignon, 11 % cabernet franc. Degré d’alcool : 14°4 – pH : 3,83. IPT : 80 (moyenne depuis 2016 ++. Cependant ils ont été de 80 en 2010 et 84 en 2009). Rendement : 36hl/ha.

Neal Martin 96-98 points www.vinous.com
The 2022 Haut-Brion, matured in 70% new oak, represents the 99th vintage under three generations of the Delmas family (see my recently published book for a remarkable photo of the first). It has slightly darker fruit than the La Mission at the moment. Incense and potpourri infuse the black plum and bilberry. There’s a touch of brine in the background. It manifests more and more complexity as it opens in the glass. The palate is medium-bodied and is blessed with unerring symmetry. It has a bewitching granular texture, complex and more focused than recent vintages, and comes across as almost pixelated on the finish. Quintessential Haut-Brion. Magnificent, but not necessarily the best wine that Delmas oversaw in this vintage.

William Kelley 95-97 points www.erobertparker.com
The 2022 Haut-Brion shows considerable promise, revealing aromas of dark berries and plums mingled with notions of pencil lead, licorice, tobacco leaf, spices and incense. Full-bodied, broad and seamless, it’s rich and muscular, with a deep, layered core of fruit framed by an ample endowment of tannin. This blend of 53.6% Merlot, 35.4% Cabernet Sauvignon and 11% Cabernet Franc, the result is a lip-smacking exemplification of controlled power. Analytically, the 2022 possesses a similar level of tannins to the 2010, and a similar pH to the 2009, yet it is more suave and polished than the 2010 at the same stage, and seemingly more dynamic than the 2009.

Antonio Galloni 97-99 points www.vinous.com
The 2022 Haut-Brion comes across as a bit restrained, given the natural opulence of the year and the other wines in the Clarence Dillon portfolio. Deep and wonderfully layered, the 2022 possesses remarkable depth but also a bit less of the explosive energy that is such a Haut-Brion signature. I suspect that will come in time, as the 2022 starts to show quite a bit better with a little aeration. Violet, gravel, incense, leather, tobacco and scorched earth linger. Superb.

Georgina Hindle 96 points  www.decanter.com (at Bordeaux, 01 Apr 2023)
Milk chocolate and blackcurrants on the nose, fragrant ripe black cherries and some floral notes. Sleek, supple, suave, really confident and shiny. This keeps the tension more than La Mission at this point with a vein of freshness and intensity. It’s not out to charm but it’s out to impress. Excellent construction, clean depth and power, tense, strict and streamlined, a touch of creaminess and saltiness. You get waves of flavour intensity with ripe, concentrated fruit, soft acidity and a clean stone freshness. Tannins fill the mouth with edges of both minerality and toasted spices. Calm and controlled, impressive with focus. 3.8pH. A yield of 35hl/ha.