CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1945
CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1945
CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1945
CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1945
CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1945
CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1945
CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1945
CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1945
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CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1945

Wine 1945 1er Cru Classé  Bordeaux Pessac Leognan
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100 / 100
Robert PARKER - The Wine Advocate October - 1994
Robert PARKER - The Wine Advocate
Tasted 5 Times With Consistent Notes The 1945 Haut-Brion is profound. It demonstrates the essence of Haut-Brion's style. The colour remains a healthy, opaque garnet with only slight amber at the edge. A huge, penetrating bouquet of sweet black fruits, smoked nuts, tobacco, and tar soars from the glass. The wine possesses extraordinary density and extraction of fruit, massive, full-bodied, unctuously-textured flavours that reveal little tannin, and copious quantities of glycerin and alcohol. It is a fabulously rich, monumental example of a fully mature Haut-Brion that exhibits no signs of decline. Awesome!
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5 / 5
Michael Broadbent December - 2000
Michael Broadbent
A superb wine, possibly the best ever Haut Brion. To describe all of its virtues and nuances is impossible : consistently deep in colour, warm ruby, with a rich mahogany, mature rim; its bouquet fragrant with vanilla chocolate, tobacco, earthy, harmonious, honeycomb, touch of liquorice; silky texture, crisp fruit, lucious, perfect weight, great length. A gentle giant.
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Vintage Wine  1945
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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