The 2010 Ch. Haut-Lagrange is an ambitious effort, offering a dense, opulent style in synch with the vintage’s character. A blend of 45 percent Merlot and 55 percent Cabernet Sauvignon, it reveals a hallmark cigar-box, wet-earth and Graves character overlaid by with sweet vanilla, smoke, and coffee notes, and no harsh tannins. It can be drunk now or cellared for another eight years.