Bright and elegant, La Clarté de Haut-Brion 2021 blends 56% Sémillon and 44% Sauvignon Blanc from the legendary Haut-Brion and La Mission Haut-Brion estates. Lively citrus, white flowers, and green apple notes shine over a fresh, saline finish. Medium to full-bodied yet featherlight in feel, this refined white Bordeaux balances energy, precision, and finesse, with aging potential into the 2040s.

Jamessuckling.com | JS 96
Published: Apr 19, 2024

The energy is really here, giving such length and complexity to this wine. Medium- to full-bodied with a solid core of fruit but a featherlight weight leading to an energetic and vivid finish. Vibrant. Reminds me of the terrific 2014. A blend of the second wines of La Mission and Haut-Brion. Drink or hold.

The Wine Advocate | RP 92
Published: Feb 8, 2024
Drink: 2024-2044

The 2021 La Clarté de Haut-Brion offers up a floral, lively bouquet with aromas of lemon, white flowers, herbs and menthol, followed by a medium to full-bodied, tense and precise palate that segues into a saline, fresh and penetrating finish. This is a blend of 55% Sémillon and 45% Sauvignon Blanc.

Decanter | D 92
Published: Jun 8, 2024
Drink: 2024-2028

A scintillating display of shiny green apples, sweet peas, gooseberry and lime, with a strong citrus character pulling right through the core. It's concentrated and weighty in the mouth, but still bright and fresh, balancing a slight richness and creaminess with succulent acidity.
Closure: Cork
Alcohol: 13.50%
Body: Full
Grapes:  44.1% Sauvignon Blanc 55.9% Sémillon

Mission-haut-brion.com

La Clarté de Haut-Brion boasts a legendary and unique kinship: made from grapes grown on the Haut-Brion terroir, it is born of two prestigious estates: Château Haut-Brion and Château La Mission Haut-Brion.

- 2021 - 

Tasting notes
The colour is pale yellow with green glints.
The wine presents concentration on the nose, with delicate
scents of white flowers and lemon.  It is wide and generous on the first taste.
Then the wine develops, fleshy and taut at the same time.
Fresh, lemony notes persist on the finish and stretch the wine out in length.
This is definitely a superb Clarté! 

The weather
The mildness of winter 2021 causes budburst to start early on 1st March. In spring, the month of April is marked by a severe incidence of frost in the Bordeaux region. The position of Haut-Brion’s vineyard once again shows its inestimable value, as the frost spared the large majority of the plots. Heavy rain during the months of May and June has little impact on the vines. In keeping with spring, the beginning of summer is wet and quite cool, so the vine develops slowly. 2021 is a winegrower’s vintage, one in which the vineyard requires a lot of attention. In early August, meteorological instability makes way for hot, dry weather, with cool nights that are propitious for the grapes’ development, in terms of their technological ripeness, as well as their aromatic characteristics. A month of fine weather enables us to reach harvesting time serenely, with grapes of superb quality. In the end, ripeness is attained, with tremendous freshness in the grapes and lower degrees of alcohol than in past years, reminding us of classic Bordeaux vintages of the 1990s.  

Harvest date: From the 3rd to the 13th of September 

Assembly
Sauvignon: 44%
Semillon: 56%

New barrels 46%
Alcohol 13.5%