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Arden Fine Wines, the award-winning retailer in London, offers this Château Haut-Brion 1996 vintage red wine for sale.
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Château Haut-Brion 1996 vintage red wine
The Château Haut-Brion 1996 vintage red wine is a wine full of contradictions and difficult to make out…
The grapes were acid but produced a subtle wine.
The sugar level was unusually high but the phenolic ripeness altered depending on the different varieties.
The Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon seemed riper than the Merlots.
The quality was very close to the last year’s crop but the structure of the wine was different.
Missing the tannins of the 1995, now the Château Haut-Brion 1996’s tannins finish with a light bitter taste in the mouth.
The wine is ample with a good structure and a pleasant harmony.
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.”
