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Find this 1985 vintage red wine – Château Haut-Brion 1985 – for sale at award-winning Arden Fine Wines in London.
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1985 vintage red wine – Château Haut-Brion 1985
The 1985 Château Haut-Brion is a classic, fully mature First Growth Bordeaux known for its seductive finesse, velvety texture, and complex savoury aromatics.
It has an intense nose of black cherries, smoke, cedar, and tobacco leaf, often accompanied by secondary notes of truffles, leather, and wild mint.
The palate is elegant and balanced with a core of spicy red fruits.
Award-winning Arden Fine Wines in London sells this 1985 vintage red wine.
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.”
