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  • Country ranking ?

    598
  • Producer ranking ?

    45
  • Decanting time

    3h
  • When to drink

    now-2040
  • Food Pairing

    Slow Cooked Short Ribs

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The Story

Château Haut-Brion is the oldest and by far the smallest of the "Premiers Grands Crus" vineyards of the Gironde 1855 classification. Château Haut-Brion is one of the few remaining family-owned domains of the Bordeaux region with a history going back to the 16th century. It has been owned by the American Dillon family since 1935.

 

There is an amazing dual hit of black fruit and fine-grained tannins here, which is rounded off with a wonde...

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Wine Information

1995/ A VERY GOOD YEAR
The characteristic of this wine is its harmony between the very soft and very fine structure and the complex aroma given by the earth of the Graves". There is a lot of charm in this bottle which could be consumed either in the next few years or be kept in the cellar as the wine will age remarkably."""

Weather conditions
Sum of temperatures : 3371 °C
Rain : 349 mm
Days where temperature above 30 °C : 30
Harvest : ...

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Vintage 1995

Bordeaux / An excellent year for both sides of the Gironde and just the vintage that Bordeaux needed after the rain affected vintages of the previous 4 years. A mild winter and early spring was followed by a dry, hot summer. It did rain in early September but the rain was less than in the previous 4 vintages and, crucially, there was perfect weather from September 20th through to October.

Quality is high across all levels and appellations, ...

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Average Bottle Price

2016 2015 2014 2012 2010 2005
408€ +11.8% 365€ -6.4% 390€ +0.8% 387€ +14.2% 339€ +105.5% 165€

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.

Tasting note

color

Medium and Ruby red

ending

Medium, Gentle and Pure

nose

Wide, Opulent and Tempting

taste

Balanced, Medium-bodied, Round, Harmonious, Toasty and Silky tannins

Verdict

Well-rounded and Average

Written Notes

Ruby. Cassis, anise, spices, liquorice, firmer, blackberries nose. Fresh acidity, ripe tannins, spices, liquorice, blackberries, intense, firmer, long. 94

  • 94p
This wine acted like an opera singer with strong voice (Pavarotti) and what a wine! Silky all over, wonderfully balanced, structured and long on the palate. Seamless. True, true Bordeaux wine to make you extremely happy for at least a quarter of the century.
  • 96p
Château Haut-Brion 1995 Full and smooth with dark plummy fruit, Asian spices, soy and beef stock. Focused and elegant though a touch light perhaps. Drinking well now with a long, balanced finish. Good but not spectacular. Now-2022 93p
  • 93p
Good looking magnum size bottle and has bottom neck level. Colour is ruby red and medium. On the nose it is wide, opulent and tempting. The taste is toasty, harmonious, round, with silky tannins, medium-bodied and with balanced structure. The finish is medium long, gentle and pure. This wine is well-rounded and average. Perfectly stored bottles are still very worthy and will last well for another 10-15 years and decant at least 1h before tasting.
- (Tasting note created by Tb's AI)
  • 88p
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Origin

Pessac-Leognan, Bordeaux

Vintage Quality

Excellent

Value For Money

Good

Investment potential

Below Average

Fake factory

None

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