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Haut Brion best years at Arden Fine Wines– Chateau Haut-Brion 1907
The 1907 Château Haut-Brion is an exceedingly rare, centenarian vintage of the famous 1er Grand Cru Classé (First Growth) red wine from the Pessac-Léognan / Graves region of Bordeaux, France.
Produced during the historic era when the estate was under the ownership of the Larrieu heirs, this bottle represents a fascinating artefact of early 20th-century winemaking.
The 1907 growing season in Bordeaux yielded resilient, aromatic, and surprisingly long-lived wines, with rare surviving bottles occasionally noted by collectors for maintaining a slender, elegant garnet hue and well-preserved savoury structure decades later.
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, it became the only non-Médoc domain to join the Médoc wine list and the Graves wine classification.
Although it is not the most concentrated, on the other hand it 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 here back to 1423.
Subsequently, Jean de Pontac founded it 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.”
