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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
1976 A GOOD YEAR
Gentleness, suaveness, the most varied nuances of fruit are all the characteristics of this year. The wine is smooth, with a good tannic structure, and it should grow stronger and develop rapidly.
Weather conditions
Sum of temperatures : 3383 °C
Rain : 278 mm
Days where temperature above 30 °C : 29
Harvest : from 13/09/1976 to 24/09/1976
Current vintage notes
We came very close to a very great year. A year with r...
Vintage 1976
The 1976 wine vintage in Bordeaux was a highly irregular, forward-drinking, and unusual year that was heavily shaped by a historic and blistering summer heatwave. An intensely hot, drought-plagued summer pushed the grapes to maximum sugar ripeness, but heavy autumn downpours during the September harvest compromised what initially promised to be a legendary crop, diluting the fruit and inflating the berries. The resulting dry red wines were gen...
Recommended glass shape
Average Bottle Price
| 2026 |
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| 411€ |
This data comes from the FINE Auction Index, a composite of average prices for wines sold at commercial auctions in 20 countries. The average prices from each year have been collected since 1990. This chart plots the index value of the average price of the wines.