Chateau Bahans Haut Brion, Pessac Leognan, 2005 so042826 cibonne 2024s offer Layered with Mediterranean herbs

Layered with Mediterranean herbs

A genuine discovery from a corner of the wine world barely anyone is paying attention to yet

gentle hand punchdowns rather than pumpovers

with extended aging in large neutral oak that yields a wine of unusual depth and savory complexity for the grape

then aged for 16 years using natural spring water from Ben Rinnes Mountain

Chateau Bahans Haut Brion, Pessac Leognan, 2005 so042826 cibonne 2024s offer Layered with Mediterranean herbsThe second wine of Chateau Haut Brion in 2005, the vintage that paired opulent ripeness with unusually firm structure, which is why this bottle still has road ahead of it. Bahans draws on the same vineyard as the grand vin: deep Gunzian gravel, more than three metres of it in places, over clay and sand in Pessac, where the heat those stones hold and the city that has grown up around the property make it one of the earliest ripening addresses in