The 1992 Château Haut-Brion is an elegant and complex wine, displaying a rare minerality and astonishing length. The wine has developed beautifully, showing a vibrant golden color and rich lanolin aromas. It offers a dry finish but remains assertive and confident with impressive length and liveliness. Despite the vintage challenges, Haut-Brion's meticulous vineyard management and careful sorting at harvest resulted in a wine with great personality and typicity, marked by ripe fruit and solid tannic concentration. This wine is expected to continue evolving and can be enjoyed through 2030.

The Wine Advocate | RP 89
Published: Jan 1, 2003
Drink: 2003-2008

This wine is an immensely successful effort for the vintage, with elegance, sweetness, and a medium plum/garnet color already beginning to show some lightening at the edge. It has developed quickly, although the wine has surprising fruit and personality for such a dreadful vintage. The wine shows good cedary, spice box, cigar, and tobacco notes intermixed with minerals, sweet plum, and cherry. The finish is a bit short and attenuated, but the aromatics, attack, and mid-palate are delicious. Anticipated maturity: Now-2008. Last tasted, 11/02. 

Jancisrobinson.com | JR 18.5
Published: Jun 13, 2017
Drink: 2000-2030

Golden. Rich and lanolin aromas. Dry end but very confident and bone dry. Impressive, assertive, long. Green and lively.

Haut-brion.com

Elegant and complex, the red wine of Château Haut-Brion is very mineral and of a rare complexity, it is distinguished by an astonishing length, this aromatic persistence being the privilege of very great origins.

Tasting note
Severe thinning was carried out at veraison in Haut-Brion.
Perfect vigilance over the health of the grapes and particularly rigorous sorting in the vineyard at harvest time resulted in a beautiful, healthy harvest.
The Haut-Brion 92 is characterized by plenty of fruit and beautiful typicity.
With good tannic concentration, this wine will be very pleasant to drink in a few years.