Tuesday, 5 March 2013

Meeting Chateau Haut-Marbuzet


My first encounter with this wine was an auspicious one (for the wine) - it was voted the best wine of the night in an early KCCWS wine dinner at the Regal Kowloon Hotel, in which we had a blind tasting of a whole range of 1994 clarets. One of the wines it beat was the Mouton-Rothschild which I later found showed such a wide bottle variation that I previously thought impossible in first growths. That 1994 Haut-Marbuzet was quite tannic at the time (and would benefit from a few more years of waiting) but the fruit, acid and other elements were evident enough despite the tannins to win our hearts.


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