CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1986
CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1986
CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1986
CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1986
CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1986
CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1986
CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1986
CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1986
CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1986
CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1986
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1986

CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1986

Wine 1986 1er Cru Classé  Bordeaux Pessac Leognan
95-100 / 100 Rated by 8 experts

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96 / 100
Robert PARKER - The Wine Advocate September - 2010
Robert PARKER - The Wine Advocate
Tasted at the La Mission/Haut-Brion dinner at The Ledbury. A second bottle from my cellar and it is almost identical with that engaging bouquet of fresh tobacco and here, a touch of Cohiba cigar! Again, the palate has a great deal of freshness and mineralite, perhaps even more cohesive than the previous bottle, with an foursquare but beautifully defined finish. Shame it is my last bottle. Drink now-2035
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95 / 100
Jeannie Cho Lee April - 2014
Jeannie Cho Lee
A classic Haut Brion that exudes tobacco and cedarbox flavours with round, supple tannins. Perfect to enjoy now, this wine has all the bottled aged complexity that one looks for in an Haut Brion at its peak.
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95 / 100
Jeff Leve - The Wine Cellar Insider March - 2016
Jeff Leve - The Wine Cellar Insider
At 30 years of age this can easily go another 30 years without breaking a sweat. There is a softness to the powerful, ever present tannins that the other top wines from 1986 do not display. The smoky, tobacco driven nose is a treat as well. 2 hours of air will help, and ten more years in the bottle will help even more!
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94 / 100
Jean-Marc Quarin December - 2016
Jean-Marc Quarin
Dark colour, medium intensity and evolved. Aromatic nose, dominated by a note of tar. Beautiful silky entry on the palate, then the wine melts into a taste of fruit mixed with notes of pine wood, smoke and tar. The flavour, strange, recalls that of peated whiskies, but the physical presence of the wine in the mouth and the tactile construction are impeccable. Beautiful length. Fine tannins. A vintage particularly typical of Haut Brion.
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93 / 100
Falstaff February - 2011
Falstaff
Strong carmine garnet, broad ochre rim, orange reflections. On the nose ripe morello cherry-cherry fruit, delicate notes of chocolate and candied orange zest, fine tobacco spice, needs air. Juicy ripe plum fruit, pleasant extract sweetness, lively acid play, fine dark berry fruit on the finish, very balanced, medium complexity, delicate notes of dark chocolate on the aftertaste.
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92 / 100
Tom Cannavan January - 2000
Tom Cannavan
Dense, still crimson/black at core picking up ruby through to light orange at rim. Quite dank on the nose, quite vegetal at first, but the Haut-Brion profile of dark, tight, bittersweet black fruit begins to push through. On the palate juicy and savoury with a coffee-bean flavour mixing with plum, liquorice and a suggestion of coal. There are still quite grippy tannins and moderately high acidity that grip into the finish. This seems slightly awkward for Haut-Brion, but this massively tannic and structured vintage might just need more time.
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95 / 100
Cellar Tracker March - 2024
Cellar Tracker
A very powerful wine still! I opened 4 hrs in btl to serve and found tight in structure and tongue catching, but leaving in decanter for half an hr later, it shone as a top BDX. Dark brown cloudy, noble nose of old Bordeaux, mouthful feeling, long aftertaste. A perfect conclusion wine among other 86 vintages red for her.
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18.5/20
Jancis Robinson April - 2014
Jancis Robinson
Superb wine at the round, sweet peak of its powers. So sweet that I would never have guessed it was a 1986 and would probably have taken it for a Pomerol. Gorgeous stuff.
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Vintage Wine  1986
Classification Médoc - 1er Cru Classé 
Region Bordeaux
Appellation Pessac Leognan
Colour Red
Volume 0.75 l
Country France
Alcohol content 13.00% vol
Château Château Haut Brion
Château Haut Brion
Château Haut Brion

It was in 1855 that Château Haut Brion was honoured with the highest distinction of Médoc wines: Premier Cru Classé. This title is all the more exceptional as Château Haut Brion is the only non-Médoc estate to be part of the Médoc wine classification, as well as the Graves wine classification as a Cru Classé!

Its terroir is indeed very similar to that of Latour. While not the most concentrated, Haut Brion is the noblest of the great wines of Pessac-Léognan and its longevity is unmatched in this area. The silkiness of its tannins is always exceptional.

Château Haut-Brion is the oldest and yet the smallest in size of the Bordeaux vineyards classified as Premiers Grands Crus (Château Lafite-Rothschild, Château Latour, Château Margaux, Château Mouton Rothschild, Château Haut-Brion). Although vineyards have been present in the region since at least Roman times, the first mention of the Haut-Brion vineyard dates back only to 1423. In the early days, wines were known by the names of the parishes from which they came. Haut Brion was founded in 1525 by Jean de Pontac and since then, illustrious figures have succeeded one another. The last of these, Clarence Douglas Dillon, was Secretary of the Treasury under the Kennedy administration. As its reputation grew, the name of the estate came to replace that of its owners. The concept of Grand Cru was born! We find the first mention of it in Samuel Pepys' diary, who wrote on 10 April 1663: "I have just tasted a French wine called Ho-Bryan (sic) which has the best and most special taste I have ever encountered..."

Among the many great vintages of Château Haut Brion, the exceptional years are 1926, 1945, 1953, 1959, 1961, 1982, 1990, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000.

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