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  • Time

    13:17 PM
  • Wine average?

    97 Tb
  • Country Ranking?

    17
  • Region Ranking?

    14
  • Popularity ranking?

    10

News

2019 Vintage

The mild and dry 2018-2019 winter period led to a rather precocious budbreak, on March 1st.

Then, in spring, with the cool temperatures, the vine grew slowly. The flowering was beautiful, with neither shatter nor millerandage. The vine growth was supported by consistent, steady rainfall in June, with the vine developing a very beautiful, uniform surface. From the end of June, the year 2019 was marked b...

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History

Château Haut-Brion Thomas Jefferson, the american ambassador to Paris and later President of the United States of America, visited Haut Brion on May 25th 1787 commenting in his journals about the soils of the vineyards as well as mentioning that there were four vineyards of first quality Château Margaux, Château Latour Ségur, Château Haut Brion and Château La Fite. He also wrote:"Haut Brion is a wine of the first rank and seems to please the A...

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Vineyards

The vineyards are on a small rise about 27 metres above sea level. It contains a very deep layer of gravel – perfect for growing wine. Just over 48 hectares are planted with 44% Cabernet Sauvignon, 42% Merlot and 14% Cabernet Franc. Château Haut-Brion is together with Latour the Premier Cru that has been most consistent for the last 100 years, never going through a phase where their wines were not worthy of their Premier Cru status.

 

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Winemaking

What makes the Haut Brion wines so different than La Mission Haut Brion's? The fierce competition that had existed between Haut-Brion and Château La Mission Haut-Brion over several years, which rose to a peak in the 1970s and early 1980s, ended when Domaine Clarence Dillon acquired La Mission in 1983.  Today Both are joining each other in a part of Graves, which at the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, before the Médoc vineyards became pop...

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Inside information

Library

Both designed by Prince Robert of Luxembourg, the Château Haut-Brion library as well as the museum of objects related to the history of the vineyard created in 2009 demonstrate the importance given to culture and heritage for the Dillon family.

The oldest books in the estate’s collection can be found in the Château Haut-Brion library, which today contains over a thousand works, the oldest going back to 1516, written in Latin by t...

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5 different wines with 182 vintages

Winemaking since 1521

  • Jean-Philippe Delmas

    Manager
    I prefer to talk about ecosystem rather than terroir. I include in the ecosystem: the soil, the plant, the microclimate, the relief and other factors. Then, it depends on the sensitivity of the wine grower and wine maker. Either you respect the ecosystem, or you make a wine without taking into account the ecosystem. We choose to respect the ecosystem.
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