“You feel like the tannins are moving,” Jean Philippe Delmas, the manager of Chateau Haut-Brion, said in a Zoom interview last week. “The aftertaste of the Haut-Brion is … phew! It’s a great wine.”
He agreed that his 2020s are so primary, where you get the true character of the structure of the wines from the grape skins and seeds instead of the wood. (I noticed this in a lot of the almost 900 Bordeaux barrel samples I have tasted so far from the 2020 vintage.) “The Haut-Brion is more open than the La Mission, which is shy today,” he said, adding that they have about 30 percent less production than last year. “Haut-Brion is so brilliant. It’s an incredible wine. 2020 is really something for us… You have a lot of horsepower.”
See their conversation in the video.
