The 2014 Château Haut-Brion is a refined and elegant wine, with a blend of 50% Merlot, 39% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 11% Cabernet Franc. It offers a bouquet of black fruit, tobacco, and subtle empyreumatic notes. The palate is fresh, taut, and well-balanced, with smooth tannins and a long finish. With its excellent structure and acidity, this wine will continue to evolve beautifully over the next few decades, showcasing increasing complexity and depth.

Jamessuckling.com | JS 97
Published: Feb 13, 2017

Beautifully perfumed with rose petals, violets and currant bush. Full body, very silky tannins and bright acidity. Tannins are super fine-grained. Goes on for minutes. Racy and refined. Persistent. Drink in 2025.

The Wine Advocate | RP 96
Published: Mar 31, 2017
Drink: 2021-2050

The 2014 Haut Brion is a blend of 50% Merlot, 11% Cabernet Franc and 39% Cabernet Sauvignon picked between 11 September and 10 October, cropped at 42.9 hectoliters per hectare and raised in 70% new oak. As I observed when I made the comparison in barrel, the Haut Brion exudes more red fruit than La Mission Haut Brion, adorned with wild strawberry, bilberry, tobacco and again, just that hint of menthol in the background. The palate is very fresh and taut on the entry. The acidity is very nicely pitched and there is a touch of marmalade and blood orange that is tangible at the back of the mouth. There is real frisson to this Haut Brion, not quite as seductive and as smooth as its sibling over the road, but very persistent in the mouth. I noticed that over 15 to 20 minutes that the Haut Brion just gained more and more complexity, putting a small distance between itself and La Mission, as if determined to mock my opinion in barrel that La Mission would have the upper hand! Be my guest. Haut Brion has an inch, just an inch ahead of its "rival" sibling. 

Decanter | D 96
Published: Bordeaux 2014
Drink: 2024-2046

Savoury dried herbs and lifted red fruits on the nose. Tense and tangy, this has real bite to it on the palate, I like the juicy core, giving this some fun and lift, but it's also quite compact and linear still – all driven in one line from start to finish. In that sense it's got lovely precision and focus but isn't so easy today. However, it has structure, length, fruit, acidity and great tannin integration. Lots to like here and keeps the momentum more than most.
Closure: Cork
Body: Full
Oak: Oaked
Grapes: 11% Cabernet Franc 39% Cabernet Sauvignon 50% Merlot

Jancisrobinson.com | JR 17.5
Published: Feb 21, 2024
Drink: 2028-2045

Tasted blind. Deep garnet. Plenty of black fruit, including a leafy note (Cab Franc?). Quite oaky on the palate and a little leaner than I expected from the nose but there’s real tannic refinement here and excellent balance.

Haut-brion.com

Elegant and complex, Château Haut-Brion red presents mineral aromas and a unique complexity. Its strength lays in the finish, which is surprisingly long. This aromatic persistence is due to its very noble origins.

Tasting notes
The truly beautiful bouquet has notes of black fruit such as blackberry and blackcurrant along with empyreumatic overtones.
The wine shows smooth, well-structured tannin on the palate, combining power and elegance from the beginning to the end.

The weather
2014 was marked by an extraordinary Indian summer that saved the vintage. Fine spring weather was conducive to a good start to the growing season. However, challenging summer conditions seriously slowed down ripening. Fortunately, the month of September was absolutely beautiful, with dry, extremely sunny weather accompanied by highs of close to 30°C. This superb weather, with cool night-time temperatures, enabled the grapes to ripen beautifully, and they were able to be brought into the vat house having reached a perfect level of ripeness.

Assembly: Merlot: 50% Cabernet sauvignon: 39% Cabernet franc: 11%