Bewertungen

• 100/100

  Wine Spectator
  What a gorgeous, seductive and beautiful wine, as always. I can´t get over the perfumed aromas of subtle milk chocolate, cedar and sweet tobacco. Full-bodied, yet so refined and silky, lasting for minutes on the palate. Everything is in just the right proportion. This is a wine that will go on forever. I love it. One of my great loves in the wine world.--´89/´99 Bordeaux blind retrospective (2009). Drink now. 12,000 cases made."

• 100/100

  The Wine Cellar Insider
  Simply spell-binding in every sense of the wine, the initial sniff tells you most of what you need to know with its wet forest floor, smoke, wild cherry, truffle, blackberry, tar and cigar wrapper scents. Intense, dense, concentrated and mouth-filling, this is just an incredible feeling on the palate. The finish crosses the 60-second mark and keeps on going. This is drinking in a beautiful place today, though there is no hurry. You can hang on for another 2 decades with ease."

• 100/100

  Jane Anson
  Stacked up against the La Mission 1989, tasted alongisde, the Haut-Brion has more immediate punch, still swinging at the very top of its game, and where La Mission has a softer welcome, showing pure pleasure and finesse, the Haut-Brion remains muscular and dense, even a little closed still on first opening, almost impossible to believe at 35 years. A stunning wine, with spiced depths to the damson, roasted plum and cassis fruits. Expect saffron, tobacco and smoked earth notes, with cigar box, rose petal and liqourice aromatics. The texture remains muscular - more so than last time I drank it, but that was from a home cellar and this is ex-château - and it proves one more time that it deserves to be in the pantheon of 20th century wines. Jean-Bernard Delmas estate director, Jean-Philippe Masclef winemaker."

• 100/100

  Falstaff
  Mittleres Karmingranat, Ockerreflexe, breitere Randaufhellung. Würzig unterlegte Nuancen, feines Nougat, reife rote Konfitnoten, Anklänge von Brombeeren und Kirschen. Kraftvoll und komplex, feste Tannine, saftige und extraktsüße Textur, schokoladiger Touch im Abgang, feine Mineralik im Finish, zeigt große Länge und Balance, sicheres weiteres Reife­potenzial. Einfach zum Hinknien. Eines der großen Weindenkmäler aus Bordeaux mit weiterer Zukunft."

• 20/20

  Weinwisser
  1989 Haut-Brion: Es ist ja nicht zwingend so, dass ein riesengrosser Wein immer extrem dunkel sein muss. Zumindest widerlegt dieser 1989er diese optische Mär. Aufhellendes Granat, übergehend in eine ziegelrote Farbe mit ersten, ganz feinen, transparent werdenden Brauntönen am Rand. Das umwerfende Bouquet ist filigran und druckvoll zugleich, viel Malz, Caramel und ist mit hellem Tabak und Kräutern gewürzt. Im Gaumen paaren sich Finesse und Power zur Jahrhundertperfektion. Das Finale ist betörend, berauschend und klingt minutenlang nach. 20/20 trinken"

• 100/100

  James Suckling
  This continues to be a perfect wine with a beautiful, dense character of tobacco and sweet fruits. Chocolate, toasted walnuts and flowers here too. It's full-bodied with velvety tannins. Lasts for minutes on the palate."

• 100/100

  The Wine Advocate
  This continues to be one of the immortal wines and one of the greatest young Bordeaux wines of the last half-century. Consistently prodigious and almost a sure bet to top the scoring card of any blind tasting of this vintage as well as other years, the 1989 Haut-Brion is a seamless, majestic classic, and a tribute to this phenomenal terroir and its singular characteristics. The wine still has a very thick, viscous-looking ruby/purple color, a spectacular, young but awesome smorgasbord of aromas ranging from scorched earth, liquid minerals, graphite, blackberry and black currant jam to toast, licorice, and spice box. The levels of fruit, extract, and glycerin in this viscous, full-bodied, low-acid wine are awe-inspiring. The brilliant symmetry of the wine, extraordinary purity, and seamlessness are the hallmarks of a modern-day legend. It is still in its pre-adolescent stage of development, and I would not expect it to hit its full plateau of maturity for another 3-5 years, but this should be an Haut-Brion that rivals the greatest ever made at this estate. Life is too short not to drink this wine as many times as possible! A modern day clone of the 1959? Anticipated maturity: 2005-2030."

• 98/100

  Decanter
  This legendary vintage trades in the market at multiples of the price of other vintages. It is, however, a sublime masterpiece of a wine. There is still a super-ripe aroma of black plum and currants, strongly accented with smoke, game and cedar elements. Firm and dense on the palate, with an undertone of dark chocolate and ground coffee on the finish. It is starting to mature now, but will last another 40 years at least with this level of structure and fruit."

• 97/100

  Jeb Dunnuck
  A beautifully complex, layered wine that offers everything you could want in a mature Bordeaux, the 1989 Château Haut-Brion reveals a deeper plum hue with a touch of bricking on the rim. This is followed by a textbook Haut-Brion nose of smoky, darker currants, smoked tobacco, cedarwood, truffle, and forest floor. With medium to full-bodied richness, a layered, seamless mouthfeel, integrated, silky tannins, and a good spine of acidity, it takes ample air to show at its best, but it's clearly in its prime drinking window."