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Château Haut-Bages Monpelou
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2024
Château Haut-Bages Monpelou (Pauillac)
Creme de Cassis, tobacco, and cedar work well with the gentle touch of herbs in the background. Medium-bodied, vibrant, soft, forward, and elegant, you can enjoy this for it fruits, and freshness on release, or age it for 12 or more years. The wine blends 75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 21% Merlot, 3% Cabernet Franc, and 1% Petit Verdot. Drink from 2027-2040. 89-91 Pts 362 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2025 |
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2023
Château Haut-Bages Monpelou (Pauillac)
Savory red fruits show as soon as you begin swirling this medium-bodied, classical-styled, forward, round, lighter-styled Pauillac, with a bright, spicy endnote. Give it a year or two of aging, and enjoy it for the next 12 years or more. Drink from 2027-2040. 89-91 Pts. 1,145 Views Tasted May 4, 2024 |
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2022
Château Haut-Bages Monpelou (Pauillac)
Black fruit, lead pencil, blackberries, and floral notes open the wine. On the palate, the wine is sweet, ripe, forward, and fruity with ripe, chewy tannins, making this a pleasure to taste early in life. Drink from 2026-2040. 90-92 Pts. 1,789 Views Tasted May 8, 2023 |
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2021
Château Haut-Bages Monpelou (Pauillac)
Bright, savory, crisp and crunchy, there is a nice sweetness to the dark, chewy red fruits on the palate along with a touch of oak, spice and tobacco leaf as well to provide complexity. The wine blends 71% Cabernet Sauvignon with 29% Merlot. Drink from 2024-2039. 89-91 1,490 Views Tasted May 20, 2022 |
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2020
Château Haut-Bages Monpelou (Pauillac)
Cedar, cigar box and black currants are found at this core of this medium-bodied wine. The wine is fresh, polished and soft, with a cool touch of salt that comes in on the end note along with its sweet currants and spice. Drink from 2023-2035. 606 Views Tasted Mar 21, 2023Savory, bright red currants with accents of underbrush, spice, cassis and cedar dominate the wine. Medium-bodied, crisp and savory, the finish is firm, fruity and already easy to drink. 89-91 Pts 1,347 Views Tasted May 20, 2021 |
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2019
Château Haut-Bages Monpelou (Pauillac)
Fresh, crisp, bright red fruits with a nice crunch along with a touch of spice and tobacco leaf form the core of this wine. On the palate, the cassis is pure, lifted and long, with a touch of ripe, cranberry and herbs finishes everything off nicely. Drink from 2025-2039. 975 Views Tasted Mar 29, 2022Forward, fresh and juicy with a concentration of freshness, fruit and refinement I have not seen here before. The cassis is pure, lifted and long, with nuances of tobacco, earth and cigar box. This is going to a very fine, well-priced Pauillac with just 5 years or so in the cellar. 89-91 Pts 3,051 Views Tasted Jun 8, 2020 |
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2018
Château Haut-Bages Monpelou (Pauillac)
Crisp, chewy, ripe, juicy, with tobacco leaf, cedar and red currants on the nose and classically styled palate. This is probably the finest Haut-Bages Monpelou ever produced. 1,102 Views Tasted Mar 9, 2021 |
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2017
Château Haut-Bages Monpelou (Pauillac)
A forward, easy drinking, soft, uncomplicated, medium-bodied pleasure from Pauillac meant for early drinking. 1,792 Views Tasted Apr 26, 2018 |
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2016
Château Haut-Bages Monpelou (Pauillac)
Straight forward, easy to understand, medium bodied with juicy cassis, spice and freshness. You can drink this on release or age it a bit. 2,359 Views Tasted Apr 29, 2017 |
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2015
Château Haut-Bages Monpelou (Pauillac)
Easy drinking, medium bodied, cassis filled wine with cedar, forest floor and tobacco notes to round things out. 3,952 Views Tasted May 21, 2018A straight shot of cassis into this lean wine will not need much, if any, time in the cellar before popping the cork. 82 - 84 Pts 3,773 Views Tasted Apr 18, 2016 |
