{"product_id":"chateau-larrivet-haut-brion-blanc-2025-bordeaux-en-primeur","title":"Chateau Larrivet Haut Brion Blanc 2025 [Bordeaux En Primeur]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNote:\u003c\/strong\u003e This is a Bordeaux Futures item. \u003cstrong\u003eEstimated Arrival Fall 2028\u003c\/strong\u003e. However, you'll never get a better price on this great vintage of Bordeaux. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Price does not include possible tariffs. Tariffs will be collected on arrival if we have to pay them - we are hopeful that they will no longer be in affect by 2028*\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChâteau Larrivet Haut-Brion Blanc 2025 — Pessac-Léognan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eScore references:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Jeb Dunnuck 93–95, Vinous 92–94, Decanter 94.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLarrivet Haut-Brion Blanc is a strong 2025 dry-white Bordeaux pick. The vintage seems to have favored whites that were picked with precision, preserving acidity while still achieving concentration. Notes point toward white peach, citrus, pear, ginger, mint, floral aromatics, and a lightly reductive mineral edge. This is a more expressive style than Domaine de Chevalier Blanc, but still very much within the serious Pessac-Léognan tradition: textured, aromatic, and built around freshness rather than weight.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-12 mt-4\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"d-flex mb-4\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow futures work\u003c\/strong\u003e: Many great chateaux of Bordeaux release a portion of wines from the latest vintage in the spring after harvest. Critics and other industry players flock to Bordeaux in April for barrel tastings to score the wines and judge the vintage as a whole. We are offered wines as they release prices over the next couple of months knowing that these won't arrive for 2+ years after we order them. However, once the wines release the prices will usually be much higher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a retail shop we have to pay a few months after we order these wines, so we offer the bottles for sale to help fund that payment, and in exchange we take a very low margin. When the wines arrive the purchasers have the benefit of owning bottles which will age for decades at a great price. And any bottles which were not purchased from us go into our inventory where we are able to charge higher margin thanks to the futures price being so low. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTLDR: You pay for wines 2 years before you get them, but there'll never be a lower price. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Misa Colorado","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50110247370975,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0439\/7436\/1248\/files\/y_4badaaed-4d3c-4a58-94f9-615e6a7f763e.jpg?v=1781284284","url":"https:\/\/danverwinemerchant.com\/products\/chateau-larrivet-haut-brion-blanc-2025-bordeaux-en-primeur","provider":"Denver Wine Merchant","version":"1.0","type":"link"}