Le Clarence de Haut Brion, Pessac Léognan, 2024
Clarence Haut Brion 2024, a blend of 45.7% Merlot, 32.3% Cabernet Sauvignon and 22% Cabernet Franc, presents attractive aromas of minerals, spices, and pure cassis. The palate offers a surprising breadth, packed with dark berries and intricate spices of liquorice and clove. Quite burly, but well put together, finishing with notes of white pepper and violet, accompanied by a subtle saline twang. Whilst an excellent effort, at this stage it stands marginally behind its stablemate, Chapelle de la Mission.
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Deep garnet-purple colored. Skips out with cheery notes of fresh blackberries and black raspberries, giving way to hints of rose bud tea, cardamom, and fallen leaves. The light to medium-bodied palate is satiny and light on its feet, featuring red berry layers and chalky tannins, finishing lifted.
The 2024 Le Clarence de Haut-Brion has a tad more cohesion and nuance compared to the La Chapelle de la Mission at the moment, with bright blackberry and bilberry scents laced with oyster shells. The palate is medium-bodied with fine, supple tannins, satisfying fluidity and a minerally finish. This will do nicely.
Clearer levels of intensity and concentration than Chapelle from the same stable, evn a touch of fennel and liquorice, a welcome gourmet character in this lean-styled vintage, plenty of spice and savoury black fruits, with salinity on the finish. Quite a different expression than recent vintages with lower alcohol and slim frame, but this delivers estate signature. 6.3% press, 31% new oak., harvest September 17 to October 4, 26hl/h yield.
Fresh and perfumed with elegant notes of dark berries, spices, licorice and lead pencil, the 2024 Le Clarence de Haut-Brion possesses a medium-bodied, firm and slightly introverted palate with firm tannins and a long, mulberries-inflected finish. The blend45.7% Merlot, 32.3% Cabernet Sauvignon and 22% Cabernet Francfeatures one of the highest proportions of Cabernet Franc since 2006.
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