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Scores + Notes
Tasted at a negociant. This has a typical Haut-Marbuzet bouquet: soft and rounded, very plush with unashamed exotic fruit interlacing the red-berries, hints of honey and marmalade. The palate is full-bodied with grippy tannins, very toasty at the moment with the new oak dominating. But there is good balance on the finish, a firm backbone here and the persistency is linear but long. Very fine
Neal Martin Score: 90-92/100
Sweet and unfocused. Plummy and picked a little late – or too much Merlot? Perfectly nice drink but not much to do with St- Estèphe apart from the minerally finish.
Jancis Robinson MW Score: 15.5/20
For the last ten years, many Bordeaux chateaux have backed off the oak treatment, but not Haut-Marbuzet. Vivid, even aggressive vanillin and toast wage an inner struggle with some black currants and black cherries in this flamboyant, overtly woody style of wine. It is medium-bodied, has good to very good concentration, but is certainly not one of the great classics from this well-known property in St.-Estephe. Drink it over the next 10-15 years. Wine Advocate.February, 2012
Robert Parker Score: 87/100
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Product Details
Tasted at a negociant. This has a typical Haut-Marbuzet bouquet: soft and rounded, very plush with unashamed exotic fruit interlacing the red-berries, hints of honey and marmalade. The palate is full-bodied with grippy tannins, very toasty at the moment with the new oak dominating. But there is good balance on the finish, a firm backbone here and the persistency is linear but long. Very fine
Neal Martin Score: 90-92/100
Sweet and unfocused. Plummy and picked a little late – or too much Merlot? Perfectly nice drink but not much to do with St- Estèphe apart from the minerally finish.
Jancis Robinson MW Score: 15.5/20
For the last ten years, many Bordeaux chateaux have backed off the oak treatment, but not Haut-Marbuzet. Vivid, even aggressive vanillin and toast wage an inner struggle with some black currants and black cherries in this flamboyant, overtly woody style of wine. It is medium-bodied, has good to very good concentration, but is certainly not one of the great classics from this well-known property in St.-Estephe. Drink it over the next 10-15 years. Wine Advocate.February, 2012
Robert Parker Score: 87/100
Bordeaux / France