Haut Brion - 1996 (750ml) Size:750ml Full-bodied and opulent with stunning

Full-bodied and opulent with stunning concentration and richness

The 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon Howell Mountain is prodigious

but gloriously pure

sweet nose of new saddle leather

and the overall power

Haut Brion - 1996 (750ml) Size:750ml Full-bodied and opulent with stunningWhile in some vintages La Mission Haut Brion and Haut Brion can be close in quality, that is not the case in this vintage. The 1996 Haut Brion, a blend of 50% Merlot, 39% Cabernet Sauvignon and 11% Cabernet Franc is clearly on a higher plane than the La Mission. There is something much more expansive and complete on the nose: greater depth of fruit, more harmonious with scents of underbrush, tar, black olive and this bottle perhaps less "feral" than I