Chateau Angelus and Chateau Haut Brion Collectors Cellar Tasting at WWWB

Tuesday, September 26, 2017 - 07:30 PM

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"It wasn't always like this. Before Paris, people didn't drink our wine. I mean, my friends did. But you could hardly consider their palates discerning..."

Bo Barrett - Bottle Shock 

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When I heard that both Victoire and Delphine were coming into town I knew that we had a lot of Chateau Angelus and Chateau Haut Brion collectors out there that would love to bring a bottle out of their cellar to share with our group tonight so I thought it was time for our first “Collectors Series” tasting at the new Wine Watch Wine Bar!

Let me explain our “Collectors Series” tasting event is where we ask you, our “Wine Drinking People”, to come up with some wine from your wine collection to add to the party in exchange for your ticket to the event.  That’s correct the “Collector Series” tasting portion of the event is FREE, all it will cost you is one bottle of Chateau Angelus or Chateau Haut Brion from your cellar!!

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Chateau Angelus and Chateau Haut Brion Collectors Cellar Tasting
with Victoire Touton and Delphine Blanchot 
7:30pm

 

Let me explain further- this is a two part event:

The first part of the evening begins at 7:30pm, this is where we will be tasting through a vertical selection of Chateau Angelus and chateau Haut Brion. The price of admission is one bottle of Chateau Angelus St. Emilion or Chateau Haut Brion Pessac Leognan from your cellar but here is the catch- we only need 1 bottles of each wine, so the longer you wait to respond the harder it will be to get a seat as you will have to go further back in time because the youngest vintages will be filled up by the first collectors who respond and the wine has to be at least 10 years old!

If you would like to attend the vertical tasting just respond to andy@winewatch.com with the vintage of Chateau Angelus or Chateau Haut Brion you would like to trade for your seat. 

 

**There are only 16 spaces available for this event.

 

Here are the vintages that we have already:

 

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2006 Chateau Angelus Saint Emilion

(95 Points) A spectacular effort (what’s new?), this brilliant offering from proprietor Hubert de Bouard is another classic. A blend of 62% Merlot and 38% Cabernet Franc, it boasts an inky/purple color as well as a sumptuous bouquet of creosote, blueberry pie, espresso roast, blackberries, and graphite. Extremely full-bodied and stunningly rich with a multi-layered texture, sweet tannin, and a 45-second finish, this exceptional 2006 is one of the great wines of St.-Emilion. Anticipated maturity: 2012-2028.  The Wine Advocate

2004 Chateau Angelus Saint Emilion

2000 Chateau Angelus Saint Emilion

1998 Chateau Angelus Saint Emilion

1994 Chateau Angelus Saint Emilion

1990 Chateau Angelus Saint Emilion

1988 Chateau Angelus Saint Emilion

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1985 Chateau Haut Brion Blanc Pessac Leognan
Price: $595.00    Your Price: $523.60
Quantity in Stock: 3

(98 Points)  This has been a head turner since it was made. The 1985 is unbelievably rich, with a velvety, fat consistency oozing with herb, melon, and fig-like fruit. This voluptuously textured wine exhibits great length, richness, and character. It never closed up after bottling and remains an exceptionally full-bodied, intensely concentrated, yet well-delineated white Graves. If you have the income of a rock superstar, this would be worth having to fete the turn of the century...The Wine Advocate

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1995 Chateau Haut Brion Pessac Leognan

(96 points)  It is fun to go back and forth between the 1995 and 1996, two superb vintages for Haut-Brion. The 1995 seems to have sweeter tannin and a bit more fat and seamlessness when compared to the more structured and muscular 1996. Certainly 1995 was a vintage that the brilliant administrator Jean Delmas handled flawlessly. The result is a deep ruby/purple-colored wine with a tight but promising nose of burning wood embers intermixed with vanilla, spice box, earth, mineral, sweet cherry, black currant, plum-like fruit, medium to full body, a high level of ripe but sweet tannin, and a finish that goes on for a good 40-45 seconds. (RP, Bordeaux Book) (1/2003)  Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

 

2003 Chateau Haut Brion Pessac Leognan

(95 Points) Even better, and clearly the best wine made in the Haut-Brion stable in 2003 (the last vintage of the great Jean-Bernard Delmas as administrator), the 2003 Haut-Brion is a blend of 58% Merlot, 31% Cabernet Sauvignon and 11% Cabernet Franc that hit 13% natural alcohol, which seemed high at the time, but given more recent vintages is modest. Dark ruby/plum in color, with no amber or orange at the edge, the wine exhibits an abundance of roasted herbs, hot rocks, black currants, plum, and balsamic notes. Quite rich, medium to full-bodied and more complete, with sweeter tannins than La Mission Haut-Brion, this full-bodied Haut-Brion has hit full maturity, where it should stay for at least a decade. Bravo!  The Wine Advocate

 

Part Two: Dinner with Victoire Touton and Delphine Blanchot 

The dinner starts at 8:30pm (this part is optional but we will have extra wine left over from the tasting and we are already seated at a restaurant...) I will have the menu tied down by the end of the week.  The charge for dinner will be $55 + tax for reservations call 954-523-9463 or e-mail andy@winewatch.com.

 

If you don’t have a bottle in your cellar there is still hope!  I will include all the Chateau Angelus and Chateau Haut Brion available at the Wine Watch on this offering.

 

Chateau Angelus available at Wine Watch

 

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Carillon de Angelus St Emilion 2009
Price: $150          Sale $132.00

The second wines of great chateau like Angelus are some of the best values in Bordeaux.

 

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1998 Chateau Angelus Saint Emilion MAGNUM
Price: $995.00    Sale Price: $800.00
Quantity in Stock: 1

(96 Points) Another great showing for a Right Bank wine, the 1998 Angelus shows a saturated opaque, plum/purple color and a beautiful fragrance of blueberry and black raspberries with licorice, asphalt, truffle and a touch of white chocolate. Beautiful texture, full-bodied opulence, striking purity and overall equilibrium make for a stunning wine that is just entering its plateau of full maturity. The Wine Advocate

 

2004 Chateau Angelus St. Emilion
Price: $540.00    Sale $475
1 btl in stock

2012 Chateau Angelus St. Emilion
Price: $615.00    Sale $541
6 btls in stock

 

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A bit of history about Chateau Angelus from one of the most compressive web pages on Bordeaux.  www.thewinecellarinsider.com

Chateau Angelus has one of the longer histories in the St. Emilion appellation. The de Bouard family has a long history in the region. In fact, the de Bouard family has been in Bordeaux for more than 700 years. They arrived in St. Emilion in 1782. However, even though Chateau Angelus has been around for quite a while, the chateau does not have the same track record. Compared to the current owners, Angelus is mere baby having been born in 1782. That was the year when Georges de Bouard began purchasing vineyard land in the St. Emilion area. At the time, de Bouard was a Jurat, and a member of the Jurade of St. Emilion

Skipping ahead a few hundred years, Catherine de Bouard de Laforest began living at a St. Emilion property known as Chateau Mazerat at the close of the 18th century. The addition of 13 hectares of prime vineyard land acquired by Maurice de Bouard de La Forest further increased their holdings. Maurice de Bouard de La Forest continued adding more vineyard land and was soon referring to the property as Clos de L’Angelus. Over the years, more vines were added to the vineyard.

Angelus earned its name from a common, everyday event. On a daily basis, the people working their Bordeaux vineyards heard the sound of the bells from three local churches. That sound inspired the now famous name of the chateau as well as the logo and the sculpture of the logo that appears in the backyard of the property.

Chateau Angelus is still owned by the de Bouard family. In fact, since 1989, Angelus is considered one of the top estates in the entire Right Bank appellation. Hubert de Bouard is currently in charge of managing the family directed property. Today, all the children participate in running the estate. Prior to his tenure, the truth is, the property was not making wines as good as their terroir allowed. The estate had a reputation for having made great wines in the 1950’s. But by the 1960’s, the quality of wine being produced at the St. Emilion had slipped.

Hubert de Bouard joined the family business at Chateau Angelus after graduating from Bordeaux University, where he studied under the famed Professor Emily Peynaud. It took a while before things began turning around for Chateau Angelus. In years like 1982 and 1985, when the materials were there to make great wine, like many St. Emilion estates, Chateau Angelus under-performed.

Starting with the 1988 vintage, Hubert began rapidly turning things around at Angelus. He was one of the first Bordeaux wine makers to embrace fermenting in open top vats and conducting malolactic fermentation in small barrels. Hubert de Bouard began employing other techniques that were popular in Burgundy, but were not widely used at the time in Bordeaux. This included fermenting with whole berries, ageing on the lees, farming, harvesting and vinifying on a parel by parcel basis.

To further improve the wines of Chateau Angelus, Hubert de Bouard lowered yields, increased selection and began aging the wines in new, French oak barrels. de Bouard, a former pupil of Emile Peynaud insists he was, and is making Bordeaux wine at Angelus the way it was made during the 1950’s, but with a modern twist.

Shortly after de Bouard began running the property, he instituted another change. He changed the name from L’Angelus to Angelus. He said, “This allows the wine to show up first in alphabetized lists.” He was right!

The vineyards of Chateau Angelus cover 39 hectares. 27 of those hectares are classified with First Growth status. The vines are planted on two unique types of soil. They have terroir of clay with limestone and clay with sand and limestone that is located on the sloping hillsides. The vineyard is planted to 50% Merlot , 47% Cabernet Franc and 3% Cabernet Sauvignon . This shows a continuing increase in the amount of Cabernet Franc in the vineyard and of course in the final blend as well. The vines average close to 38 years of age. The estate has old vines dating all the way back to 1918. While the oldest vines are Merlot, the estate has 10 hectares of Cabernet Franc that are more than 60 years of age. The vineyard is planted to a vine density that ranges from 6,500 to 8,000 plants per hectare. Newer plantings are the higher level of vine density.

Serious vineyard management techniques are practiced including debudding, followed by crop thinning in the summer and green harvesting. The vines are pruned using “Girondine” method, which leaves two canes. Vineyard practices remain traditional. Some rows are seeded with grass to reduce water.

The vine canopies allow the leafs to gain maximum sun exposure. The fruit is hand picked and sorted three times. In the vineyard, again after it’s been destemmed and a final time at the winery. Starting with the 2009 vintage, Hubert de Bouard’s pursuit to obtain the finest possible Bordeaux wine inspired him to add a line of 60 people to manually destem berry by berry. Hubert believes manual destemming helps the berries remain intact. It’s amazing watching two rows of destemmers, each 30 deep in people, working on the fruit, one berry at a time. Hubert de Bouard said, “Manual destemming helps the berries remain intact, while retarding oxygenation and retaining freshness”. de Bouard used this method for 20% of the 2009 crop. In 2010, they employed 150 workers to manually destem the grapes . With the additional workers, they came close to hand destemming half their crop!

From that point forward, destemming takes place using the cube. For storing, they were one of the first St. Emilion estates to embrace optical sorting technology. To ensure only the top grapes are used, an additional hand sorting takes place after the fruit is put through the optical sorter.

To make the wine of Chateau Angelus, the process starts with cold maceration that is seldom more than 5 days. Fermentation takes place in a combination of 24 temperature controlled vats of wood, stainless steel and concrete. There are 8 wood vats ranging in size from 70 to 75 hectoliters. There are 8 stainless steel vats, concrete and open top, oak vats. The vats are on average 70 hectoliters, with some smaller vats of 50 hectoliters. There are 9 concrete tanks as well. Everything in the cellar moves by gravity flow. After Malolactic fermentation in barrel is completed, the wine is aged in 100% new, French oak barrels for between 18-24 months. The length of time depends on the vintage and its characteristics. On average, there are 8,500 cases of Chateau Angelus produced every vintage. The estate also produces a second Bordeaux wine, Le Carillon de l’Angelus.

Starting in 2007, Chateau Angelus introduced a third wine, Number 3 d’Angelus. Productions of the third wine is small with close to 800 cases per vintage. The de Bouard family own other estates in the Right Bank including; Chateau Bellevue in St. Emilion, La Fleur de Bouard in Lalande de Pomerol and Chateau de-Francs in Cotes de Francs . Hubert de Bouard consults numerous chateaux in the Medoc , Pessac Leognan , St. Emilion and Pomerol .

In June, 2012, Stephanie de Bouard-Rivoal, the daughter of Hubert de Bouard was named executive manager of the estate. That same year. September 6, 2012, Chateau Angelus was upgraded in the official 2012 St. Emilion Classification to Premier Grand Cru Classe A. Only 4 St. Emilion estates share that honor. To celebrate the upgrade in the classification, Chateau Angelus released the 2012 vintage in a special pitch black, colored bottle that was embossed with a 21.7 carat gold imprinted script. This design replaced their standard paper label. The unique design will only be used for the Chateau Angelus 2012 vintage. When the 2012 Angelus was first offered for sale as a future , the estate raised the price. A decision that was considered controversial, due to the moderate quality of the difficult vintage. However, prices for all back vintage of Chateau Angelus quickly moved up in the marketplace following their elevated status, vindicating their price increase.

Preceding and coinciding with the upgrade of the classification for Chateau Angelus, the estate finished a complete renovation of the property. Designed by the noted architect Jean-Pierre Errath, the massive project included the creation of new cellars, a reception center for guests, work on the chateau, business offices and the famous, Chateau Angelus Bell tower. A large part of the effort required extensive use of limestone blocks from the Frontenac quarries located in St. Emilion. It is estimated that the total cost of the renovations was close to 10 million Euros. Much of the work was completed in 2013, just in time for the 2013 harvest. The entire renovation of Chateau Angelus was finished in early 2014. The estates renovation is not the only new project Hubert de Bouard has been in involved with. In late 2013, the de Bouard family expanded their holdings in St Emilion when they purchased the restaurant, Logis de la Cadene. Logis de la Cadene has one of the longest histories in St. Emilion and having dined there, from personal experience I can honestly say, its one of the top restaurants in all of Bordeaux as well.

The style of Chateau Angelus is pure silk and velvet. It’s a rich, full bodied and concentrated, Bordeaux wine, offering silky, cashmere textures that’s filled with luscious, opulent, spicy dark fruit, licorice, spice and truffle that ages extremely well.

Read more at:http://www.thewinecellarinsider.com/bordeaux-wine-producer-profiles/bordeaux/st-emilion/angelus/

 

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A bit about Chateau Haut Brion:

It is commonly - but erroneously supposed - that the famous 1855 Classification of the great wines of Bordeaux was a classification of the Médoc only, with Château Haut Brion in the Graves somehow muscling in because it was too prestigious to be excluded.  A research of the facts proves this widely held belief to be untrue.  The 1855 Classification was, in fact, a list of the best wines of the entire Bordeaux area.  If no Saint-Emilions or Pomerols appear, and indeed no other Graves, it was because they were not considered good enough.  Haut Brion, however, made the list as one of the four original premiers crus just behind Lafite, Margaux, and Latour; furthermore, it can claim to be the most senior of them all.  Château Haut Brion is in fact the oldest wine producing estate in the entire Bordeaux area.  Not only was it the first to establish itself and not only did it fetch a much higher price than the other first growths for nearly a century after, Château Haut Brion was also the very first single-property Bordeaux wine to be mentioned in English literature.  The following quote is from Samuel Pepys's diary on 10 April 1663: "to the Royal Oake Taverne...And here drank a sort of French wine called Ho Bryan, tha hath a good and most particular taste that I never met with."  Pepys several times refers to claret in his diary and at least once to clarets in the plural, denoting that several alternatives were on offer.  However, nowhere else in the diary did he refer to any other Bordeaux wine by name.

There are records of Haut Brion as a place name dating back to the fourteenth century, though at that time it was more commonly rendered D'Aubrion.  D'Aubrion passed through a number of hands until the lands and building were acquired by the Pontac family, a dynasty of wealthy merchants and politicians which flourished at Haut Brion (and did much to establish its enormous early reputation) until Napoleonic times.  The name Haut Brion, also referred to interchangeably by this time as Pontac, is also recorded in the works of Dryden, Defoe, Swift and John Evelyn.  The latter wrote from London in July 1683 of having "much discourse with M. Pontaq...owner of that excellent vignoble of Pontaq and O'Brien, from whence came the choicest of our Bordeaux wines".  More interestingly, the property was actually visited by the great political philosopher John Locke on May 14, 1677.  Locke wrote: "It is a little rise of ground open to the west, in a white sand mixed with gravel - scarce fitting to bear anything..." Locke goes on to add "that the best quality at Bordeaux is Médoc or Pontac."

Over the ensuing centuries Haut Brion was bought and sold many times - perhaps its most famous proprietor was the French Foreign Minister, Talleyrand, who purchased it in 1801 after the previous owner had been guillotined.  After Talleyrand's brief stewardship, Haut Brion suffered a period of decline and changed hands several more times.  Auctioned in 1836 for almost 300,000 francs, the estate was purchased by a Parisian banker, Joseph-Eugène Larrieu.  This was a turning point for Haut Brion - the Larrieu dynasty lasted nearly a 100 years during which time Haut Brion enjoyed one of the most successful stretches in its illustrious history.  However, just before World War I, Haut Brion went through a very difficult period and began to slip badly until it was sold once again in the mid 1930's.  The purchaser was Clarence Dillon, an American financier.  He paid 2,350,000 francs, a little over $300,000 at the rate of exchange ruling at the time.  Cheval-Blanc, it is said, was also on the market for the same very reasonable price; and so was the great Château Ausone.  However, Dillon and his party got lost in the fog and never reached either of the latter properties; they settled for Haut Brion and its comfortable accessibility to the city.  In 1962 the management company, Domaine Clarence Dillon SA, was transferred to Douglas Dillon, former United States Ambassador and Secretary of the Treasury under Kennedy.  The president of the company is now his daughter Joan, Duchesse de Mouchy; the senior Dillon died in 1979 at the age of 96.  The last 25 years have seen an extensive program of modernization of Haut Brion under the direction of the resident administrators Georges Delmas, who arrived at Haut Brion in 1921 and his son Jean-Bernard, the current director of affairs, who took over in 1960.

The château itself was built in 1550 and enlarged in the 1740's and is familiar to anyone who has seen the label on a bottle of Haut Brion. In the courtyard outside, a male and female stone lion crouch on guard.  Inside in the hall is a plaque commemorating the fact that Clarence and Anne Dillon equipped the Château as a hospital and gave it to the French for use during the Second World War.  The building faces west, away from the vineyard, and lies in a small parc anglais.  Deeper in this garden are tennis courts and a swimming pool; and further on is the back entrance to the house of Jean-Bernard Delmas.

Haut Brion is in Pessac in the northern end of the Graves district, three miles from the center of Bordeaux.  Across the road is the great Château La Mission Haut Brion, a property that sometimes rivals and even surpasses Haut Brion.  At one time in the Middle Ages, La Mission was most certainly a part of Haut Brion.  These are the nearest major vineyards to the heart of the city; and these two, virtually alone, have been able to withstand the march of concrete from the city outward.  The vineyard, which straddles both sides of the main Bordeaux-Arcachon road and railway, is planted to 115 acres of vines in the ratio of 55 per cent cabernet sauvignon, 20 per cent cabernet franc, and 25 per cent merlot - a higher cabernet and lower merlot percentage than a few years ago.  Jean Delmas, one of the most able and respected winemakers in Bordeaux, was one of the first in Bordeaux to see the implications of the right rootstock as well as of clonal selection of the vines.  For the last twenty years, and more particularly since 1977, he has been conducting experiments to produce the best clone for each of the three grape varieties.  In total there are some 550 individual clones now coming into fruition.  This research will enable poor quality clones and sterile plants to be progressively eliminated. Delmas belies the image that winemakers for the great growths are nothing more than caretakers.  Improving on the very best has been the life goal of Jean Delmas.  Haut Brion also produces an exquisite dry white known as Haut Brion Blanc.  For the white there are some eight acres under vine - half sauvignon blanc and half sémillon.  The wine is fermented and aged in new oak and bottled fourteen to sixteen months after the harvest.  It is a wine which is rarely offered on the Bordeaux market and not often seen on winelists except in the top local restaurants.  The quality of the wine, however, is very high and is generally considered the very best of the now chic white wines of Graves.  In addition, there is a second label for the red known as Bahans Haut Brion.

The one word used to sum up the red of Château Haut Brion is elegant.  One could also add charming and consistent.  Although Haut Brion does not have the acclaim of Lafite or Pétrus or fetch the same sort of astronomical prices at auction, it is certainly in their same class.  Moreover, when one considers quality, prestige, and historical legacy, Château Haut Brion must be considered the single most important wine estate in France. 

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1964 Chateau Haut Brion Pessac Leognan
Price: $600.00    Sale Price: $480.00
Quantity in Stock: 1

1981 Chateau Haut Brion Pessac Leognan
Price: $380.00    Sale Price: $300.00
Quantity in Stock: 1

1983 Chateau Haut Brion Pessac Leognan
Price: $835.00    Sale Price: $695.00
Quantity in Stock: 1

 

1989 Chateau Haut Brion Pessac
Price: $2500.00    Sale Price: $1750.00
Quantity in Stock: 1

 

(100 Points) This continues to be one of the immortal wines and one of the greatest young Bordeaux wines of the last half-century. Consistently prodigious and almost a sure bet to top the scoring card of any blind tasting of this vintage as well as other years, the 1989 Haut-Brion is a seamless, majestic classic, and a tribute to this phenomenal terroir and its singular characteristics. The wine still has a very thick, viscous-looking ruby/purple color, a spectacular, young but awesome smorgasbord of aromas ranging from scorched earth, liquid minerals, graphite, blackberry and black currant jam to toast, licorice, and spice box. The levels of fruit, extract, and glycerin in this viscous, full-bodied, low-acid wine are awe-inspiring. The brilliant symmetry of the wine, extraordinary purity, and seamlessness are the hallmarks of a modern-day legend. It is still in its pre-adolescent stage of development, and I would not expect it to hit its full plateau of maturity for another 3-5 years, but this should be an Haut-Brion that rivals the greatest ever made at this estate. Life is too short not to drink this wine as many times as possible! A modern day clone of the 1959? Anticipated maturity: 2005-2030. Last tasted, 1/03. Bordeaux Book, 4th Edition.  Jan 2003

 

1990 Chateau Haut Brion Pessac Leognan
Price: $1400.00    Your Price: $1232.00
Quantity in Stock: 1

(96 Points) Haut-Brion has been the most consistent first-growth over the last decade, producing top-notch wines, even in such tough years as 1987, 1993, and 1994. I have had a tendency to forget just how exceptional the 1990 Haut-Brion is because of the huge shadow cast by the 1989. However, in this blind tasting, the 1990 proved itself to be a great wine. Its price has not risen nearly as much as one might expect given its quality. The 1990 is a decadently ripe wine with much more evolution to its fragrant cassis, mineral, smoked-herb, hot rocks, tobacco, sweet, toasty nose. Fat, rich, and medium to full-bodied, this superbly-concentrated, forward, awesomely-endowed wine requires 4-6 years of cellaring; it is capable of lasting for 20-25 years. It is an unheralded, underrated 1990 that deserves more attention. Wine Advocate # 109, February 1997

 

1998 Chateau Haut Brion Pessac Leognan Magnum
Price: $1150.00    Your Price: $1012.00
Quantity in Stock: 1

(96 Points) As reported over the last two years, this is a prodigious Haut-Brion. It exhibits a dense ruby/purple color in addition to a tight, but incredibly promising nose of smoke, earth, minerals, lead pencil, black currants, cherries, and spice. This full-bodied wine unfolds slowly, but convincingly on the palate, revealing a rich, multi-tiered, stunningly pure, symmetrical style with wonderful sweetness, ripe tannin, and a finish that lasts for nearly 45 seconds. It tastes like liquid nobility. Anticipated maturity: 2008-2035. Wine Advocate #134, Apr 2001

 

2000 Chateau Haut Brion Pessac Leognan
Price: $1388.00  Sale $1221.44
8 btls in stock

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1990 Haut Brion Pessac Leognan              
Price: $1252.50  Sale $1102.20
               
1995 Haut Brion Pessac Leognan
Price: $825          Sale $726

2000 Haut Brion Pessac Leognan
Price: $1297.50  Sale $1141.80

2003 Haut Brion Pessac Leognan
Price: $840          Sale $739.20

2008 Haut Brion Pessac Leognan
Price: $795          Sale $699.60

2010 Haut Brion Pessac Leognan
Price: $1425        Sale $1254

2011 Haut Brion Pessac Leognan
Price: $960          Sale $844.80

2012 Haut Brion Pessac Leognan
Price: $762          Sale $670.56

2013 Haut Brion Pessac Leognan
Price: $495          Sale $435.60

2014 Haut BrionPessac Leognan
Price: $585          Sale $514.80

 

The rarest of the white wines of Bordeaux- Chateau Haut Brion Blanc

 

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1989 Chateau Haut Brion Blanc Pessac Leognan
Price: $2500.00    Sale Price: $2250.00
Quantity in Stock: 2

(100 Points)  This is the most immense and large-scaled Haut-Brion Blanc I have ever tasted. Jean Delmas, administrator of the Dillon properties, justifiably felt the 1989 fully replicated the fleshy, chewy texture of a great Grand Cru white Burgundy. Only 600 cases were made of this deep yellow/gold-colored, rich, alcoholic, sumptuous wine. It is amazingly full and long in the mouth, with a very distinctive mineral, honeyed character. The low acidity would seemingly suggest a shorter life than normal, but I am convinced this wine will last 25 or more years. It is a real show-stopper! Sweet, honeyed peach, caramel, and buttery aromas tumble from the glass of this prodigious effort. Anticipated maturity: Now-2025. Last tasted, 1/03. Bordeaux Book, 4th Edition, Jan 2003

 

1985 Chateau Haut Brion Blanc Pessac Leognan
Price: $595.00    Your Price: $523.60
Quantity in Stock: 3

(98 Points)  This has been a head turner since it was made. The 1985 is unbelievably rich, with a velvety, fat consistency oozing with herb, melon, and fig-like fruit. This voluptuously textured wine exhibits great length, richness, and character. It never closed up after bottling and remains an exceptionally full-bodied, intensely concentrated, yet well-delineated white Graves. If you have the income of a rock superstar, this would be worth having to fete the turn of the century...The Wine Advocate

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