Composed of 56.2% Sauvignon Blanc and 43.8% Sémillon, the 2017 Blanc sashays out of the glass with gregarious notions of peach preserves, pineapple tart and orange blossoms with touches of musk perfume, candied ginger and allspice. Medium-bodied, the palate reveals a gorgeous satiny texture with amazing citrus and tropical fruit intensity and a seriously racy backbone carrying the layers to a very long, impactful finish. Give this a few more years to really flaunt its stuff, and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if this warrants the full three-digits. Bravo!

Composed of 56.2% Sauvignon Blanc and 43.8% Sémillon, the 2017 Blanc from Haut-Brion is a little more reticent on the nose than the La Mission Haut-Brion Blanc, offering up subtle pink grapefruit, green mango and ripe pears scents with an undercurrent of baking bread, ginger and allspice plus a waft of lemon peel. The palate is medium-bodied with wonderfully generous tropical and citrus flavors accented by loads of spices, finishing long and savory. - Lisa Perrotti-Brown, erobertparker.com, April 2018

This is so reserved and tight, yet you can sense density and depth that seems endless, like a black well. Full-bodied, but agile and lively. Serious flavors of lemon peel, lemon grass and slate. It goes on for minutes. Thought-provoking wine, in a sublime way.

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The 2017 Chateau Haut-Brion Blanc checks in as 56.2% Sauvignon and 43.8% Semillon. This beauty is up with the top wines of the vintage yet, like the La Mission Haut Brion Blanc, will need bottle age to show it. Tart lemons, pineapple, crushed rocks, charcoal, and white flower notes all emerge on the nose, and it's racy and vibrant on the palate, with a rocking level of mid-palate depth and richness. I suspect a solid 5-7 years of bottle age are warranted.

The 2017 Haut-Brion Blanc is just beginning to show what it can do. This is beautifully defined on the nose with Granny Smiths, orange blossom and Anjou pear, stretching its arms as it welcomes aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with a silver bead of acidity, light malic notes, cucumber and melon. This is very harmonious and poised, just a wonderful, tensile white Haut-Brion for long-term aging. Tasted blind at the château.

The 2017 Haut-Brion Blanc is totally seamless, with no real beginning or end. Creamy and deeply layered, the 2017 is simply magnificent. Lemon confit, chamomile, mint, and white pepper. There is a real sense of textural depth and weight to the 2017, even if the flavors remain very much on the bright side of things. I imagine the 2017 will age beautifully for many decades to come. - vinous.com, May 2018