1983 Chateau Haut Brion Pessac Leognan from this lot has the following scores - John Gilman's View from the Cellar 91 points, Robert Parker 91 points. This is the tasting note for 1983 Chateau Haut Brion Pessac Leognan from John Gilman - The ’83 Haut Brion had a rather long adolescent stage of funkiness, but I had felt it had moved on from that more than a decade ago, only to cross paths with another recalcitrant bottle most recently. Aromatically this bottle was very closed and “horsy”, with reluctant notes of cassis and blackberry fruit subsumed in a swirl of singed tobacco, barnyard, smoke, Graves earth, herbs and a touch of oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and quite shut down, with fine mid-palate depth, still a bit of well-integrated tannin to resolve, and fine length, if not a lot of generosity on the finish. I have always been a fan of the ’83 HB, and crossing paths with a much more closed than usual bottle certainly does not dissuade me of its ultimate quality. Typically, this wine is much nearer its plateau of maturity, but this one was none the worse for its bit of youthful closure.