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Find this 1979 vintage red wine – Chateau Haut-Brion 1979 – for sale at award-winning Arden Fine Wines in London.
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1979 vintage red wine– Chateau Haut-Brion 1979
The 1979 Bordeaux vintage experienced a wet spring followed by a hot summer.
Although Cabernet Sauvignon faced some maturity challenges, Merlot fared exceptionally well, allowing properties like Haut-Brion to craft balanced, long-lived wines.
This 1979 vintage red wine has a traditional mature Bordeaux nose of forest floor, leather, tobacco, and blackcurrants.
On the palate, expect smoky, spicy, and earthy notes with dark cherry and caramel undertones.
It has a medium-to-full-bodied profile providing a velvety, silky-soft mouthfeel.
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.”
