La Tour Haut-Brion : 10 results priced between £10.00 and £3,000.00

Chateau Haut Brion, Chateau Lafite Rothschild, Chateau Latour, Chateau Margaux, and Chateau Mouton Rothschild: five names that changed the world of French wine. For the first time, this book brings their separate stories together into one sweeping saga; from their early days as estates owned by some of France's most powerful families, to the dramas of the French Revolution, the 1855 Paris Exhibition where four were crowned as First Growths and the determined efforts that saw Mouton Rothschild join...

Description and Reviews: *** 90-92 points - Wine Journal *** Reviews: "Brown rim. Brown sugar, olives and leather nose. Quite rich for 1970. Balanced and very smooth palate. Coffee & sweet red fruits. Fully mature, a highly enjoyable wine (and far cheaper than Latour.) Somewhat under-rated by others. Then again chez Alex Hunt in November 2005. Although a little musty at first, this wine grows and grows on you. A cool, blackberry leaf, cranberry nose with lots of cedar and pine is followed by a...

One of the four original 1st Growths in the 1855 classification (along with Lafite, Margaux and Latour) Haut Brion has always ranked as one of the most desirable wines in the world. Its story, since 1855, has been quite incredible including a series of disasters that plagued the vineyards during the second half of the 19th century and occupation by German forces during WWII. In fact, during the war, Haut Brion served as a rest home for Luftwaffe pilots. Owned by the Dillon family since 1934, the...

This is a blend of 47% Cabernet Sauvignon, 26% Cabernet Franc and 27% Merlot and includes that which once would have gone into La Tour Haut-Brion - no longer produced. Beautiful jet-plum in colour, opaque to a tight rim, this presents sweet red and black fruit compote on the nose, summer pudding and spice. The palate is frisky, a profusion of berry fruit supported by cocoa-dry, fine-grained tannins. Luscious and ripe, this is beautifully extracted, well-balanced, full and extraordinarily long.