The 2015 Château Haut-Brion is a stunning wine with a blend of 50% Merlot, 42% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 8% Cabernet Franc. It displays a complex nose of black cherries, plums, blueberries, spices, espresso, and lavender. On the palate, it’s full-bodied with a rich fruit profile balanced by fresh acidity and finely textured tannins. The wine is incredibly poised, offering a long, expressive finish. While already impressive, it will evolve beautifully over time, becoming even more refined and complex. This wine, rated 100 points by many critics, is destined to be a standout for decades.

The Wine Advocate | RP 100
Published: Feb 22, 2018
Drink: 2024-2064

A blend of 50% Merlot, 8% Cabernet Franc and 42% Cabernet Sauvignon, the medium to deep garnet-purple colored 2015 Haut-Brion is reticent to begin, languidly revealing crushed black cherries, ripe black plums and wild blueberries with sparks of cinnamon stick, cloves, nutmeg, espresso, unsmoked cigars, tapenade, crushed rocks and lavender. The full-bodied palate possesses wonderfully complementary contrasts of bold black and blue fruit richness and delicately nuanced cherry fruit, baking spices and floral accents, strutting ripe, finely pixelated tannins and seamless acidity that is placed firmly in the background, finishing very long and with plenty of attitude. This impeccably poised, exquisitely perfumed 2015 Haut-Brion possesses the most alluring yet seemingly effortless beauty. While it bears only a passing resemblance in its opulent personality to the now legendary 1989, like that vintage the 2015 cannot fail to hedonically satiate and intellectually edify all lovers of great Bordeaux who drink it. What's more, it also has the blue-blooded tenaciousness to remain this jaw-droppingly impressive, throughout its many guises over time, and for a very, very long time. 

Decanter | D 99
Published: Nov 5, 2019
Drink: 2024-2060

Rich and sumptuous on the palate with huge depth of fruit yet reined in by fresh acidity, with masses of tight tannins. It’s already appealing to drink (as are many 2015s) this really needs a decade or more to allow it to fully develop. The 15% alcohol is carried so easily here, with the crushed rock, sage, lavender and warm earth characters making it a standout First growth. Rated as a 100-point wine by many influential judges and undoubtedly one of the wines of the vintage.

Jamessuckling.com | JS 98
Published: Feb 1, 2018

This is all about seduction and beauty with tobacco, berries, tea and wet earth. Full-bodied, round and sexy. Love the polished and beautiful tannins. Racy and refined. Try in 2023.

Jancisrobinson.com | JR 18
Published: Mar 25, 2025
Drink: 2030-2050

Tasted blind. Mid garnet. Slightly muddy, indistinct nose. Then fresh, laser-pure fruit on the palate. Still very young. Extremely direct. Lots of inky tannins on the end. Latour-like.

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
A beautiful deep garnet-red color. The initial nose is ripe and intense. Swirling reveals it to be complex, with notes of red and black fruits, very ripe, without excess. Spices mingle with the fruits, licorice, a light note of clove...
The attack on the palate is full and caressing. The wine immediately fills the palate without harshness and in all dimensions: height, width and depth, therefore relief and flavors of ripe fruits, mixed with cocoa bean. The finish is long with notes of mocha, coupled with the slight bitterness of coffee. The aging will undoubtedly reveal even more of its greatness and bring it into the league of the finest vintages of Haut-Brion.

Assembly: Merlot: 50% Cabernet sauvignon: 42% Cabernet franc: 8%