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Wine Description
The Story
Among the ultra-elite hierarchy of Bordeaux First Growths, Château Haut-Brion occupies a singular space. While its counterparts—Lafite Rothschild, Margaux, Latour, and Mouton Rothschild—reside in the Médoc north of the city, Haut-Brion stands alone in Pessac-Léognan, just outside Bordeaux’s urban core. It is not merely a founding pillar of fine wine history; it is arguably the birthplace of luxury winemaking as we know it today.
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Wine Information
Château Haut-Brion 1952
A GOOD YEAR
In this bottle, all is harmony, roundness, perfection. The wine's breeding, always present, bequeaths a nicely melded tannin, giving the wine an agreeable and noble firmness, The taste on the whole is more generous than the bouquet.
Weather conditions
Sum of temperatures : 3270 °C
Rain : 306 mm
Days where temperature above 30 °C : 29
Current vintage notes
Everything started off for an extraordi...
Vintage 1952
Bordeaux by Tb: The recovery after the Second World War was slow and winegrowers had many challenges to overcome. Their production facilities were in poor condition and there was no capital for investments. However, thanks to several large harvests, the period from 1945 to 1961 produced some of the most heralded Bordeaux wines ever made. 1952 is on equal footing to finish on the list of the greatest vintages of the time, among 1945, 1947, 1949...
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Average Bottle Price
| 2026 |
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| 1 100€ |
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