Chateau Haut Brion - Bahans du Haut Brion 2005 available at Knightsbridge Wine Shoppe in Northbrook, IL

Barrel sample. A complete wine, rich and opulent. It has all the right balances of acidity, sweet fruits, black flavors and underlying dry tannins. Excellent.

Chateau La Mission Haut Brion - Pessac Leognan 2005 available at Knightsbridge Wine Shoppe in Northbrook, IL

The 2005 La Mission Haut-Brion is pure perfection. It has an absolutely extraordinary nose of sweet blackberries, cassis and spring flowers with some underlying minerality, a full-bodied mouthfeel,…

The 2005 Haut Brion is out of this world and certainly one of the finest wines I've ever tasted. Deeper, richer, and more concentrated than the 2000, it offers as pure an expression of this terroir…

Some wines are so brilliant, so transcendent, that just about any attempt to describe them can feel like an affront. The 2005 Haut-Brion is one of them. \r\n \r\n\r\n100 points from Robert Parker.…

(100 points) The mineral-laced 2005 Haut Brion (56% Cabernet Sauvignon, 39% Merlot and 5% Cabernet Franc) is exquisite. With its elegance and finesse, it is not as powerful as La Mission, but the…

This is incredible on the nose, showing coffee cake, blackberry, floral, coffee bean and vanilla bean, with Chinese spices. A very complex, full-bodied red,.