1991: This wine has turned out far better than I ever expected.It started off life relatively austere, closed and tannic, and seemed a bit light, but the wine has put on weight (as so many vintages of Haut-Briontend to do) and now shows a very complex nose of cigar tobacco intermixed with scorched earth, sweet cherry and black currant fruit, and some high-quality toast. The wine is medium bodied and a great example fo finesse, elegance, and just brillianct winemaking in a vintage where the odds were stacked against even a great terroir such as Haut-Brion
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