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Wine Description
The Story
The 2025 Château Haut-Brion Red is an absolute masterclass in purity and precision, staying true to its legendary roots while delivering an incredibly refined performance. It wasn't an easy year in the vineyards—the summer brought serious heat and a prolonged drought—but Haut-Brion’s iconic gravel soils worked their magic to keep the vines perfectly balanced. The team pulled off a highly precise, plot-by-plot harvest between September 1 and 18...
Wine Information
Château Haut-Brion 1975
A VERY GOOD YEAR
Truly great wine-everything in aroma, fruit and power. Very much marked by nobility. A structure which is at once tannic and smooth. Much complexity of taste.
An exceptional wine.
Weather conditions
Sum of temperatures : 3250 °C
Rain : 362 mm
Days where temperature above 30 °C : 16
Harvest : from 25/09/1975 to 08/10/1975
Current vintage notes
June, as well as July, were very hot. Septem...
Vintage 1975
Bordeaux: After four miserable vintages came the hot vintage of 1975 which briefly put Bordeaux wines in the spotlight once again. The unstable temperature of September turned into good weather for the harvest. The grapes were high in sugar, but many reds, especially those made from Cabernet Sauvignon, lacked phenolic ripeness. This resulted in masculine and even aggressive reds with austere and even harsh tannins.
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