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1949 wine gift – Chateau Haut-Brion 1949 for sale at award-winning Arden Fine Wines in London.
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1949 wine gift – 1949 Château Haut-Brion
The 1949 Château Haut-Brion is a a mature vintage from the prestigious First Growth estate in the Pessac-Léognan appellation of Bordeaux.
Wine experts generally consider the 1949 vintage an excellent year in Bordeaux, and this wine stands out as one of the finest of the year.
The wine presents an archetypal Haut-Brion nose with spices, chocolate, and jammy red berries.
Other reviewers note aromas of brown sugar, olives, leather, cedar, and tobacco.
The wine’s flavour profile includes tobacco, dried pears, and cedar.
Wine enthusiasts describe the wine as fully mature, delicate, and tender.
Award-winning Arden Fine Wines in London offers this great 1949 wine gift for sale.
A brief history of Château Haut Brion
It was in 1855 that Château Haut Brion was honoured with the highest distinction of Médoc wines: Premier Cru Classé (First Growth).
In due course, Château Haut Brion became the only non-Médoc domain to be included in the Médoc wine list, as well as the Graves wine classification.
Although it is not the most concentrated, Haut-Brion, on the other hand, is 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 holds 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.”
