2021
La Clarté de Haut-Brion
Tasting notes
The colour is pale yellow with green glints.
The wine presents concentration on the nose, with delicate
scents of white flowers and lemon. It is wide and generous on the first taste.
Then the wine develops, fleshy and taut at the same time.
Fresh, lemony notes persist on the finish and stretch the wine out in length.
This is definitely a superb Clarté!
The weather
The mildness of winter 2021 causes budburst to start early on 1st March. In spring, the month of April is marked by a severe incidence of frost in the Bordeaux region. The position of Haut-Brion’s vineyard once again shows its inestimable value, as the frost spared the large majority of the plots. Heavy rain during the months of May and June has little impact on the vines. In keeping with spring, the beginning of summer is wet and quite cool, so the vine develops slowly. 2021 is a winegrower’s vintage, one in which the vineyard requires a lot of attention. In early August, meteorological instability makes way for hot, dry weather, with cool nights that are propitious for the grapes’ development, in terms of their technological ripeness, as well as their aromatic characteristics. A month of fine weather enables us to reach harvesting time serenely, with grapes of superb quality. In the end, ripeness is attained, with tremendous freshness in the grapes and lower degrees of alcohol than in past years, reminding us of classic Bordeaux vintages of the 1990s.
A few figures
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Harvest dates
From 3rd to 13th September
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Blend
Sémillon : 56%
Sauvignon : 44% -
New barrels
46%
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Alcohol
13.5%
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