2010 Château Haut-Bages Libéral, Pauillac, Bordeaux

Red • Dry • Medium Bodied • Cabernet Sauvignon,Merlot

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Description

The 2010 Haut-Bages Libéral wine has a beautiful, perfumed nose of ripe red fruits with a stunning texture of ultra fine tannins. It is a totally harmonious balance of highly polished, but not pushed, summer berries, with a real feel of Pauillac sophistication and a soaring finish. Although its direct neighbours are the fabled Ch. Pichon-Lalande and Ch Latour, the delightful Claire Villars will keep her feet on the terroir and price this so we can all afford it. A terrific wine.
Simon Staples, Fine Wine Director

Colour

Red
Sweetness

Dry
Vintage

2010
Alcohol

13.5%
Grape

Cabernet Sauvignon,Merlot
Body

Medium Bodied
Producer

Château Haut-Bages Libéral

Critics reviews

Jancis Robinson MW

16/20

Bright dark crimson. Quite big and sweet and ripe. A little lacking flavour and form. Goes through the motions a bit and some greenness on the end.

Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com

Robert Parker

92/100

One of the best efforts from this estate since the 1982, this wine remains fairly priced. It exhibits ripe blue and black fruits, a dense plum/purple color, good acidity buttressing a remarkably rich, fleshy, sumptuous texture, and oodles of smoky black currant and blueberry fruit. Ripe, heady and rich, this wine will probably benefit from 2-5 years of cellaring despite its precociousness and keep for two decades.
The finest Haut-Bages-Liberal I have tasted in many years, this sleeper of the vintage exhibits a blue/purple hue as well as projected aromatics of blue and black fruits, spring flowers and subtle background oak. Full-bodied with moderately high tannins, a layered mouthfeel and a long finish.

Robert Parker, Wine Advocate

Robert Parker

92/100

One of the best efforts from this estate since the 1982, this wine remains fairly priced. It exhibits ripe blue and black fruits, a dense plum/purple color, good acidity buttressing a remarkably rich, fleshy, sumptuous texture, and oodles of smoky black currant and blueberry fruit. Ripe, heady and rich, this wine will probably benefit from 2-5 years of cellaring despite its precociousness and keep for two decades.

Robert Parker, Wine Advocate (February 2013)