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1947 wine gift – 1947 Château Haut-Brion
The 1947 Château Haut-Brion is a legendary Bordeaux wine from a warm and dry vintage that created ripe, powerful, and concentrated wines.
The First Growth estate Château Haut-Brion in Pessac-Léognan produced it, and connoisseurs know it for its remarkable longevity.
Decades after bottling, the wine continues to show a complex and intense bouquet.
Various tasters identify aromas of roasted red-black fruits, dried black cherry, cigar ash, tobacco, minerals, and dark chocolate.
The palate presents full-bodied, rich, and ample flavours of cassis, raspberry, and pipe tobacco.
Despite its power, bottles that have aged well can maintain a smooth and elegant structure with fresh acidity.
The finish is long and lingering.
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A brief history of Château Haut Brion
In 1855, the highest distinction of Médoc wines, Premier Cru Classé (First Growth), honoured Château Haut Brion.
In due course, Château Haut Brion became the only non-Médoc domain to join the Médoc wine list and the Graves wine classification.
Although it is not the most concentrated, Haut-Brion, on the other hand, stands out as the most noble of wines from Pessac.
Moreover, the industry recognises its longevity as unparalleled.
In addition, wine enthusiasts always find the silky tannins exceptional.
Furthermore, Château Haut-Brion claims the title of the oldest and yet the smallest of Premiers Grands Crus.
Interestingly, historians trace the first mention of vineyards of Haut-Brion back to 1423.
Subsequently, Jean de Pontac founded Haut-Brion as a wine estate in 1525.
Under Pontac’s leadership, the wine, in fact, first bore the name of this noble and respectable family.
As a result, as its reputation grew, the estate’s name eventually replaced that of its owners.
The English diarist Samuel Pepys noted on Friday 10th April 1663 a visit to the “Royall Oak Tavern, in Lumbard Street…
And here drank a sort of French wine, called Ho Bryan…
That hath a good and most particular taste that I never met with.”
