Chateau Haut Bages Liberal 2023

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86% Cabernet Sauvignon and 14% Merlot

Full-bodied and elegant, this red Bordeaux blend from Pauillac offers notes of cassis, black fruit, and oak.

The estate takes its name from the elevated Bages area and the Libéral family, who added their name to the property in the early eighteenth century. The family assembled vineyard holdings in southern Pauillac, helping establish the estate’s reputation. Château Haut-Bages Libéral earned Grand Cru Classé status in the 1855 Bordeaux classification and later passed through several owners before Jacques Merlaut’s arrival in 1982.

Professional Scores

96

The 2023 Haut-Bages Libéral is a potent, virile wine. In many vintages, Haut-Bages Libéral is a bit more pliant and inviting, but the 2023 is a wine that is going to need time to come around. Swaths of tannin wrap around a core of black fruit, leather, lavender, licorice, incense and gravel. The 2023 was aged for 16 months in 40% new barrels, 40% once-filled barrels and 20% in a mix of amphora and concrete ovals. I can't wait to see how this ages.

Antonio Galloni / Vinous

750ml