CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1996
CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1996
CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1996
CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1996
CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1996
CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1996
CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1996
CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1996
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1996

CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1996

Wine 1996 1er Cru Classé  Bordeaux Pessac Leognan

To drink between 2010 and 2046

What characterises the climate of the year 1996 the most is its great consistency. In summary, an average summer dotted with a few fine spells.
Château Haut Brion 1996 is a good wine overall, ample, with a beautiful structure and good harmony.

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95-100 / 100 Rated by 5 experts

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97 / 100
Jane Anson - Inside Bordeaux April - 2025
Jane Anson - Inside Bordeaux
This has stunning aromatics, the most complex of the lineup tasted here, and underlines why 1996 is recognised as one of the great – and often underestimated – vintages of Haut-Brion. Opens at a slow, steady pace, tobacco leaf and grilled cedar, soft blackberry and cassis fruit, gentle cigar box and pencil lead, ready to drink. 65% new oak for ageing.
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96 / 100
Jeff Leve - The Wine Cellar Insider October - 2021
Jeff Leve - The Wine Cellar Insider
Elegant, refined, smoky, tobacco and campfire ember packed medium-bodied wine which provides the perfect backdrop for all the sweet, fresh, spicy red berries, tobacco leaf, and cigar wrapper. Soft, silky, and ready to go, this does not require much if any air.
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96 / 100
Robert PARKER - The Wine Advocate December - 2023
Robert PARKER - The Wine Advocate
While it's the Médoc that tends to steal the limelight in this vintage, the 1996 Haut-Brion, the fruit of a strict selection, is a brilliant wine and comparatively underestimated today. Wafting from the glass with aromas of tobacco leaf, sweet currant fruit, loamy soil, cedar box and camphor, it's medium to full-bodied, layered and intense, with a deep core of fruit, sweet tannins and a long, sapid finish.
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95 / 100
Tom Cannavan January - 2020
Tom Cannavan
Not tasted since 2000, this was decanted off the sediment and poured almost immediately. Shy at first, within 10 minutes in the glass the sweet red and black fruit began to emerge, joining game and light cedary scents that grew and grew, becoming richer and firmer in the glass. On the palate a gorgeous iron-oxide, dried blood streak to this, the finesse of the tannins and acidity just beautifully balanced, the wine structurally elegant and yet muscular, a great depth of savoury fruit really beginning to dominate the mid-palate and the long finish. Superb. Drinking really, really well now, but will hold for several years I suspect.
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92 / 100
La Revue du Vin de France January - 2005
La Revue du Vin de France
Guide vert 2005
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Vintage Wine  1996
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

Château Haut-Brion is one of the most iconic wines of Bordeaux. In 1855, it received the supreme distinction of Premier Cru Classé, an exceptional recognition as it is the only non-Médoc estate to feature in the classification of Médoc wines, whilst also being classified as a Cru Classé de Graves. It is today an absolute reference of the Pessac-Léognan appellation.

Its terroir, close to that of Château Latour, lends the wines of Haut-Brion a unique nobility. Without seeking extreme power, the wine distinguishes itself through its elegance, the finesse of its tannins and a remarkable ageing potential, often considered one of the greatest in Bordeaux.

Château Haut-Brion is the oldest, and also the smallest in area, of the Bordeaux Premiers Grands Crus Classés, alongside Château Lafite Rothschild, Château Latour, Château Margaux and Château Mouton Rothschild. While the presence of the vine in the region dates back to Roman times, the first written mention of the vineyard is from 1423. The estate was founded in 1525 by Jean de Pontac and quickly gained international renown. Its reputation was such that it played a part in the very birth of the notion of Grand Cru, mentioned as early as 1663 by Samuel Pepys in his famous diary. More recently, the estate belonged to Clarence Douglas Dillon, former United States Secretary of the Treasury, further adding to its prestige.

The first of the great crus to be vinified in stainless steel vats, as early as 1961, the estate ages its reds for up to twenty-four months in barrels sourced mainly from its own cooperage. Its great vintages mark the history of Bordeaux, from the 1931 wine and the post-war 1949 vintage to the modern benchmarks of the 1982 wine, the 1988 and the 1990 vintage, not forgetting the second wine Bahans Haut Brion, which became Le Clarence de Haut-Brion.

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