Haut Brion - 1996 (750ml) Size:750ml but gloriously pure

but gloriously pure

The wine hits the palate with extraordinary purity

Distillery Notes:

The 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon Howell Mountain is prodigious

and the overall power

Haut Brion - 1996 (750ml) Size:750ml but gloriously pureWhile in some vintages La Mission Haut Brion and Haut Brion can be close in quality, that is not the case in this vintage. The 1996 Haut Brion, a blend of 50% Merlot, 39% Cabernet Sauvignon and 11% Cabernet Franc is clearly on a higher plane than the La Mission. There is something much more expansive and complete on the nose: greater depth of fruit, more harmonious with scents of underbrush, tar, black olive and this bottle perhaps less "feral" than I