Deep ruby in color, with the tell tale aromatics of cigar box, tobacco, tar, cassis and dark ripe fruits, while it's still in the primary stage, it's impossible to deny the class, charm, elegance and concentration, as well as the length found here. Give it another decade for it to expand and develop. 98 Points Read more at:https://www.thewinecellarinsider.com/search-wine-tasting-notes/?szSearch=2006%20Haut%20Brion

Opening initially with a red-fruited tinge, this evolves and transforms into slightly darker fruit brushed with graphite. The fruit is still forward, gradually allowing notes of toast, smoke and turned earth to nestle alongside. It's still gutsy in structure, with fine cranberry acidity.

Tasted at Bordeaux Index's annual 10-Year On tasting in London. The 2006 Château Haut-Brion has a more ostentatious bouquet than the comparatively reserved La Mission: quite feisty blackberry, briary, kirsch and red plum scents, hints of leather and sage tucked just underneath. This is a bouquet determined to make an impression! The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin, well-judged acidity, a gentle build to a concentrated, earthy, truffle-tinged finish that lingers long in the mouth. This seems to have the upper-hand over the La Mission and probably has a longer future. A thoroughbred from Jean-Philippe Delmas and his team. Tasted January 2016. - Neal Martin

A severe austere wine that doesn't show its richness easily. The tannins are tight and firm and they dominate. Underneath is ripe fruit the balance with tannins giving a foursquare solid character. The wine is complex spice playing with the fruit some medicinal flavors and a definite stalky tight structure. It obviously needs long-term aging.

The 2006 Haut Brion is a classic, elegant version of this cuvee, and while approachable, it is still young and relatively unevolved. Textbook Graves notes of smoky tobacco, cigar, leafy herbs, lots of earthy minerality, and a deep core of black fruits all emerge from this beauty. With medium to full-bodied richness and impressive mid-palate depth, it has fine, present tannin, impeccable balance, and a great finish. Drink this classic Haut Brion anytime over the coming two decades.

<object width="320" height="240"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pMerF-aM990"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pMerF-aM990" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="320" height="240"></embed></object> <b>My tasting note:</b>Dark purple in the glass with a violet rim. On the nose there fruit aromas are very dark: black cherry blackberry and cassis accented by light vanilla and cinnamon. However there is a green herb aroma that denotes a lack of complete ripeness in the fruit. New oak comes through on the front of the palate followed by sweet berry fruit. Not quite as full and lush on the mid-palate and the tannic structure stays more powerful than the fruit through the finish. Does have a nice spicy quality not present in many of the 2006 wines. Tasted twice with consistent notes. 41% Cabernet Sauvignon 57% Merlot 2% Cabernet Franc.

Jean-Philippe Delmas's team at Domaine Clarence Dillon produced two excellent wines in 2006 from the neighboring properties of Haut-Brion and La Mission. Both share an aristocratic stature with Haut-Brion more immediately powerful and expressive in this vintage. As if the fruit mirrored the multicolored pebbles of the vineyard this touches off sensory impressions of fresh currants pomegranate cherry pits coriander black raspberry rhubarb and fennel all seeming to emanate from the same dark and mysterious place at the center of the wine. The texture is lean and taut with a tensile strength that carries the fruit past mouth-drying tannin through a mineral finish that lasts for minutes. There's nothing effusive about the wine; it's all reserved. Probably at its best between ten and 20 years from the vintage.