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Chateau Haut Brion Pessac Leognan(1959)
- Winery:
- Haut Brion (Château)
- Varietal:
- Bordeaux Blend
- Region:
- France > Bordeaux > Graves > Pessac-léognan
- Type:
- Red Wine
- User Tags:
- ovis, pork, poultry, fruit, complex, sparkling, experience, mature, champagne, cellar
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January 2008
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1959 Château Haut-Brion 6/25/2006. On one hazy summer day 2006, while regrouping my bottles in the cellar, I, by accident, tipped over the jewel : Chateau Haut Brion 1959. As it happens in similar cases it got crashed. Fortunately enough this has been secured with plastic foil wrap - the content did not get spilled. The decision was to be made quickly.
There were two choices - either I would drink it all by myself or I split it with some friends. In addition to it - who can quickly get enough real wine buffs on Saturday evening to make the degustation not like throwing pearls to swine ? Few phone read more...calls were made and the wine transcended into Riedel Duck decanter. The most illuminated brains available at that time were «Leterroir’s» guys.
Within few minutes the cab with this liquid treasure pulled down at their sanctuary and feast started. The adventure spoke for itself. One has to realize that this nectar is /was/ almost 50 years old and it can still get better.
I spilled some of this wine in my bathroom as I left the broken bottle there. The smell fulfill space more intensely than when I use my Gucci pour hommes eau d'toilette. It lasted for 3 days. When we drank it, it has almost Porto like taste, the complexity was superb, the ultimate roundness and balance was overwhelming. The elements of pork, tobacco and cocoa too.
The presence of wild fruit can never be better - it tasted almost kitschy, science fiction portrait of ideal garden similar to what Jehovah Witnesses show in their leaflets.
We had some Veuve Cliquot NV champagne afterward, it tasted like a Gatorade laxative. Awful. This was my life time experience, which, I guess, will hardly gets surpass. 100 in Parker scale. 1 700,- Euros (hide)
- HS
- Wine Spectator
- 04/30/97
- 98/100
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April 1997
- Wine Advocate # 95
- Oct-94
- 98/100
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April 2008
- Wine Advocate # 90
- Dec-93
- 98/100
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April 2008
- Wine Advocate # 80
- Apr-92
- 94/100
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April 2008
