1999 Haut-Marbuzet
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Henri Duboscq told me he has preferred his 2001 to his 2000 from the outset, due to the new vintage's fresher, more vibrant fruit. "But the '98 is still my best wine of the past 10 years. We've actually had very consistent quality since 1995. We had a dip from 1992 through 1994 because we weren't selective enough. I was too sure of my superiority," admitted Duboscq, "and I didn't take into consideration the huge progress being made by my neighbors." Duboscq was among the first in the Medoc to do the malolactic fermentation in new barriques Or, as he put it, "I was the first to overwhelm the terroir in the first five or six years of the wine's life. In recent years, though, Haut-Marbuzet has become more a wine of place than of vintage."
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Bruno Duboscq describes the 2000 Haut-Marbuzet as the chateau best wine since the 1990 but not quite as strong as that earlier vintage. "Some of the cabernet sauvignon could have used a bit more sun to ripen its skins better," he told me at the end of March. "We declassified a lot of our cabernet into our second wine." The pH in 2000 was a relatively high 3.8 here (compared to 3.69 in '99), thanks to the very ripe merlot.
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Although 40% of this estate is planted to merlot, the '99 will feature a high 55% of merlot. "Not only was the merlot even riper than that of '98," explained production manager Bruno Duboscq, "but the selection of the cabernet was especially strict in '99. We would have made an '82 or an '89 or '90 if the weather had held for the harvest," he added. Haut-Marbuzet is one of a handful of high-visibility Medoc chateaux that does not work with local negociants; most of its wine is sold directly to private clients, and the price is downright reasonable.