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2023 La Clarté de Haut-Brion, Graves, Bordeaux
- White
- Dry
- Full Bodied
- Sémillon (43.7%), Sauvignon Blanc (56.3%)
Not ready
(Drink 2026 - 2034)
- James Lawther MW
- 16/20
- Neal Martin
- 88-90/100
- Antonio Galloni
- 90-92/100
- Jeb Dunnuck
- 90-92/100
- Yohan Castaing
- 90-92/100
- Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW
- 91-93/100
- James Suckling
- 93-94/100
- Jane Anson MW
- 93/100
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Description
56.3% Sauvignon Blanc; 43.7% Sémillon.
This is the second wine of both Haut Brion Blanc and La Mission Haut Brion Blanc (previously known as Les Plantiers). As with all the whites from the Clarence Dillon stable this year, Sauvignon Blanc leads the blend (56.3%). The wine is incredibly fresh and bright revealing notes of agrume, gooseberry and pear. The palate is linear, intense and with lots of tension that delivers a mouthwatering finish.
Our score: 16/20
Berry Bros. & Rudd
Colour White
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2023
Alcohol % 13.4%
Maturity Not ready
(2026 - 2034)
Grape List Sémillon (43.7%), Sauvignon Blanc (56.3%)
Body Full Bodied
Producer Château Haut-Brion
Critics reviews
James Lawther MW 16/20
56.3% Sauvignon Blanc, 43.7% Sémillon. Cask sample.
Bright and translucent. Sauvignon-dominated aromas. Medium intensity but lifted and fresh.
Drink 2025 - 2028
Neal Martin 88-90/100
The 2023 La Clarté de Haut-Brion has quite an intense and lively bouquet: Granny Smith apples, pear and light, slate-like aromas. The palate is fresh on the entry with fine depth, perhaps needing a little more tension on the mid-palate, but this feels long and tender. It will drink after just one or two years.
Drink 2026 - 2032
Antonio Galloni 90-92/100
The 2023 La Clarté de Haut-Brion is the second white wine from La Mission and Haut-Brion. It offers terrific cut and focus. Citrus peel, white flowers, mint, crushed rocks, white pepper and a touch of reduction lend notable energy to this airy, sculpted dry white. Time in the glass reveals its lovely mid-palate texture, rounding things out. The 2023 is a fine Clarté.
Drink 2025 - 2033
Jeb Dunnuck 90-92/100
The second wine for both La Mission Haut-Brion and Haut-Brion, the 2023 La Clarte De Haut-Brion Blanc is a blend of 56.3% Sauvignon Blanc and 43.7% Semillon. It has a crisp, vibrant nose of crushed citrus, honeyed lemon, pineapple, and a kiss of minerality as well as a medium-bodied, fresh, focused, elegant profile on the palate.
Yohan Castaing 90-92/100
Aromas of smoke, white fruits and ripe orchard fruits preface the 2023 La Clarté de Haut-Brion blanc, a medium-bodied, round and supple wine that is fruity and elegant on the finish. This is a blend of 56.3% Sauvignon Blanc and 43.7% Sémillon.
Drink 2025 - 2040
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW 91-93/100
A blend of 56.3% Sauvignon Blanc and 43.7% Semillon, La Clarte de Haut Brion 2023 has a pH of 3.2. It zips out of the glass with electric scents of fresh limes, yuzu, and green mango, leading to hints of chalk dust and white pepper. Medium-bodied, the palate delivers a crisp line to cut through the intense citrus layers, finishing long and chalky.
Drink 2025 - 2030
James Suckling 93-94/100
A tight and focused second wine of La Mission and Haut Brion with a classy texture and beautiful length and focus. Medium body, fresh acidity and a crunchy finish. 56.3% sauvignon blanc and 43.7% semillon.
Jane Anson MW 93/100
Effortless, well balanced, white peach, juicy pear, delicious, sculpted and extremely easy to love. 3.2ph, 40% new oak. A test with shade cloths to provide cover for the berries on a small part of the white vineyard is underway, as the team under Jean-Philippe Delmas reacts to the changing conditions.
Drink 2025 - 2035
About this wine
Graves
The region which first established Bordeaux's reputation, Graves wines were exported to England as early as the 12th century. The names is derived from ‘gravel’ and the best soils are gravel-rich, mixed with sand and occasionally clay. It is larger in areas than the Médoc but produces only half the amount of wine. The best wines were first classified in 1953 with this classification confirmed in 1959.
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