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Haut Marbuzet 1983 150cl

Cru Bourgeois Exceptionnel | St. Estephe | Bordeaux | France
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17 Rene Gabriel
99: Reifendes Granat mit orangen Reflexen. Offenes, nach Dörrfrüchten duftendes Bouquet, Rosinenspuren. Im Gaumen einerseits recht fett, andererseits jedoch auch eine Trockenheit darin, fleischig, vielleicht etwas zähfliessend, aber durchaus mit Charakter beladen. 17/20 austrinken
90 Wine Spectator
A wonderful glass of wine, full of fruit and sophisticated wood character. Full-bodied and rich with supersoft tannins and an array of cedar, tobacco, licorice and ripe fruit flavors. Drinkable now.--The Bordeaux 50. –JS
89 Robert Parker
Fully mature since it was released, the 1983 Haut-Marbuzet continues to offer that decadent, flashy style that admirers of this estate's wines enjoy. The huge nose of jammy black-raspberry fruit, coffee, smoky oak, and herbs leaps from the glass. Medium to full-bodied and voluptuous, this soft, fat, viscously textured wine is still alarmingly low in acidity, yet it shows no sign of decline. The color exhibits some amber at the edge, but, wow, what an explosive, ripe, intense mouthfeel this wine provides! It should drink well until the end of this decade. Last tasted, 5/93.
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Château Haut Marbuzet
Amongst the upper echelons of Saint-Estèphe, Château Haut-Marbuzet comfortably sits in competition with the equally eminent Cos d’Estournel and Montrose châteaux. The Duboscq family has owned and run the impressive Cru Bourgeois growth since the 1950s. Today, Henri Duboscq and his two sons, Bruno and Hughes manage the 61-hectare property. With close to half of the vines dedicated to Merlot, this high proportion accentuates the fleshy, plush side of Haut-Marbuzet wines. The grapes here are harvested exceedingly ripe, the wine is then aged in 100% new-oak barriques for 18 months. Duboscq’s extremely rich Saint-Estèphe displays the flawlessly treaded spiced notes coming from barrel maturation. The top wine, Haut-Marbuzet is a concentrated red, with brilliant notes of vanilla and subtler dark fruits, and like all the wines here, each bottle invariably outshines many of the offerings coming from the château’s biggest rivals.