FEATURES
🏰The 2021 Château Larrivet Haut-Brion Blanc is an 【always impressive and distinctive dry white Bordeaux, offering a great nose of ripe grapefruit, minty herbs, and obvious minerality, with excellent aging potential for 10-15 years】. This blend of 78% Sauvignon Blanc and 22% Semillon presents aromas of salted almonds, flint, dried pineapples, lemon pith, and chopped herbs. On the palate, it's tight, bright, and spicy with a medium body and sharp acidity, loaded with sweet, ripe pineapples, tangerines, lemons, and white peach skins. The freshness of the vintage is balanced by a velvety texture in the making.
🍴 A perfect wine to serve with shellfish, sashimi, sushi, all types of seafood, chicken, veal, and cheese. Its vibrant acidity and minerality also make it a great match for goat cheese salads or grilled asparagus.
🥂 Ideal for a sophisticated lunch, a summer gathering, or as a versatile wine to pair with a wide range of lighter dishes.
BACKGROUND
Château Larrivet Haut-Brion is a highly regarded estate in the Pessac-Léognan appellation of Bordeaux, known for producing excellent red and white wines. The estate has seen significant investments and improvements since being acquired by the Gervoson family in 1987. The white wine is typically a blend of Sauvignon Blanc and Sémillon, grown on deep gravelly soils with a clay-limestone subsoil. Fermented and aged in oak barrels, the wine is rich, textured, and aromatic, offering complex notes of citrus, white peach, honeysuckle, and a distinct flinty minerality, with excellent aging potential.
