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JAMES SUCKLING: "This is solid with dried pineapple, grapefruit and apple character. It’s full-bodied with fantastic structure and depth. Phenolics are all there. Serious. 86% sauvignon and the rest semillon."
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JEB DUNNUCK: "The 2022 Château Larrivet Haut-Brion Blanc is going to be outstanding, if not more. Offering a vivid gold hue as well as ample citrus, orange blossom, mint, and some honeyed, mineral notes, it's medium-bodied, has good acidity, and terrific overall balance. Despite coming from a hot, stressful year, this is lively, pure, and beautifully done. Tasted twice."
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LISA PERROTTI-BROWN: "The 2022 Larrivet Haut-Brion Blanc features baked apples, poached pears, and toasted almonds scents with touches of lime leaves and baking bread. The medium-bodied palate delivers great intensity of spicy apple and savory flavors, supported by a crisp backbone, finishing long and spicy."
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THE WINE ADVOCATE: "Aromas of spices, lemon oil, lime tree, verbena, exotic, menthol and iodine introduce the 2022 Larrivet Haut-Brion Blanc, a medium to full-bodied, seamless and sapid wine with a succulent core of fruit and a penetrating, fresh and saline finish. This blend of 86% Sauvignon Blanc and 14% Sémillon, maturing in 70% new oak and 30% wood tank or foudres, is a strong effort."
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FALSTAFF: "Mittleres Gelbgrün, silberfarbene Reflexe. Gelbe Tropenfrucht, ein Hauch von Mango und Pfirsich, ein Hauch von Orangenzesten und Blütenhonig. Kräftig, feine Fruchtsüße, zart nach Passionsfrucht im Abgang, bleibt haften, ein stoffiger Begleiter bei Tisch."
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THE WINE CELLAR INSIDER: "White flowers, grapefruit, spearmint, orange, mango, green apple, and pineapple show in the nose. From there you find sweet, yellow and orange citrus, pineapple, and pears from start to finish on the mid-palate through to the end note. The nose is just great with all of its pineapple, white peach, honeysuckle, mango, orange rind, and waxy lemons in the perfume. Fresh, crisp and energetic, with a bit of chalk to accompany all the yellow fruits in the finish. The wine is produced from 86% Sauvignon Blanc and 14% Semillon. 14% ABV, 3.24 pH. Drink from 2024-2028."
