100 points Jeb Dunnuck
The 2015 Haut Brion is a perfect wine that couldn’t be any better and is certainly at the top of this great vintage. A blend of 50% Merlot, 42% Cabernet Sauvignon, and the balance Cabernet Franc, this full-bodied, concentrated, backward, yet sensationally pure 2015 boast knockout notes of blackcurrants, smoked tobacco, ground herbs, and graphite, with a terrific damp earth/minerality quality emerging with time in the glass. Straight, focused, and built like a skyscraper, with a stacked mid-palate, forget bottles for 7-8 years and enjoy over the following three to four decades. 
(11/2017)
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BodyFull
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CountryFrance
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RegionBurgundy
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Colour/StyleRed
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Grape VarietyMerlot
Description
The wine-growing history of the Haut-Brion area goes back to the middle of the first century A.D., as attested by the recent discovery of a coin bearing the effigy of the Roman Emperor Claudius on a gravelly hillside, which corroborates the Celtic origin of the toponym “Haut-Brion”.
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