12 bottles per lot
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HAUT-BRION 1959
Château Haut-Brion--Vintage 1959
Pessac (Graves), 1er cru classé
Excellent appearance. Original tissues. Levels: three at 3.5cms, six at 4cms, one at 4.5cms, one at 5cms and one 7cms. Offered in original wooden case
Tasting Note: There is a world of difference between the wine of Haut-Brion, arguably the oldest great-wine château in the Bordeaux region, and its peers in the Médoc. The mesoclimate is different, but above all is the soil, the deep Graves-gravel. The wine is most distinctively in appearance, nose and taste. Perfection at tasting 1995, a beautiful, fully mature, brown-rimmed wine with bouquet surging out of the glass. Very sweet - with that distinctive earthy, tobacco-leaf taste. Most recently, a wonderful gradation of colour; showing age, but sweet and mellow, with a lovely edge-of-honeycomb scent after an hour in the glass. A positive sweet entry and soft. All the component parts working in harmony. June 2000 ***** M.B.
12 bottles per lot
Château Haut-Brion--Vintage 1959
Pessac (Graves), 1er cru classé
Excellent appearance. Original tissues. Levels: three at 3.5cms, six at 4cms, one at 4.5cms, one at 5cms and one 7cms. Offered in original wooden case
Tasting Note: There is a world of difference between the wine of Haut-Brion, arguably the oldest great-wine château in the Bordeaux region, and its peers in the Médoc. The mesoclimate is different, but above all is the soil, the deep Graves-gravel. The wine is most distinctively in appearance, nose and taste. Perfection at tasting 1995, a beautiful, fully mature, brown-rimmed wine with bouquet surging out of the glass. Very sweet - with that distinctive earthy, tobacco-leaf taste. Most recently, a wonderful gradation of colour; showing age, but sweet and mellow, with a lovely edge-of-honeycomb scent after an hour in the glass. A positive sweet entry and soft. All the component parts working in harmony. June 2000 ***** M.B.
12 bottles per lot