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Jeb Dunnuck: Sporting a deep purple hue, the 2025 Château Larrivet Haut-Brion has classic aromatics of cassis, spring flowers, spicy wood, and graphite. Based on 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23% Merlot, and 22% Cabernet Franc, with the Cabernets raised in 50% new and once-used barrels and 5% of the Merlot aged in terracotta amphorae, I love its purity and vibrancy. Medium to full-bodied on the palate, it has a pure, layered mouthfeel, fine, polished tannins, and a great finish. I'd buy it."
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Decanter: Refined and harmonious, this wine comes across with ripe red and black fruit aromas and flavours. The palate has smooth, even rather creamy, tannins giving a supple, gently chewy feel without dryness. Aromatically expressive, it combines those red fruits with floral notes lifted by subtle orange rind freshness. Mid palate juiciness and freshness has been aided by the estate’s cooler limestone sub-soils. An elegant wine with very good length and a sense of understated depth."
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James Suckling: Minerally textured and precise, medium to full body, with an angular personality and just enough fruit to keep it in balance. Hints of tobacco and bark at the finish. 55% cabernet sauvignon, 23% merlot and 22% cabernet franc."
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Jane Anson: Toasted spice, coffee, cocoa bean, slate, concentrated but with real promise to unroll and unfurl, lots of dark fruits and tannins. 3.54 pH. Harvest September 3 to 29. 25% new oak. Christine and Philippe Gervoson, Charlotte Mignon is the director. This is a young team and a lot happening, plenty of investment in vineyard and cellar, agroforestry programme. Tasted twice."
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Vinum: Feinduftig, verspielt, floral, mit Cassis und Brombeeren; am Gaumen präzis und hochelegant, wie oft mit sehr lebendig, mit knackiger Frucht und feinen, gut integrierten Tanninen; langes, salines Finale. Eine Delikatesse."
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Falstaff: Tiefdunkles Rubingranat, opaker Kern, violette Reflexe, zarte Randaufhellung. Feine Edelholznuancen, Brombeeren und Heidelbeeren, ein Hauch von Cassis, Mandarinenzesten, einladendes Bukett. Komplex, elegant, harmonisch, reife Kirschen, tragende, seidige Tannine, mineralisch-salzig im Abgang, bereits harmonisch, gutes Reifepotenzial."
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The Wine Cellar Insider: Cigar wrappers, cedar, flowers, tobacco, black cherries, and currants create the aromatic profile. The medium-bodied palate is fresh, vibrant, and packed with tobacco-stained currants, blackberries, spice, and smoke. Elegant in style, the wine will be charming in its youth, but it also has the ability to age for 20 or more years. The wine is made from 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23% Merlot, and 12% Cabernet Franc. 13% ABV, 3.54 pH. Drink from 2029-2050."
