CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1986
CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1986
CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1986
CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1986
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CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1986
CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1986
CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1986
CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1986
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1986

CHÂTEAU HAUT BRION 1986

Wine 1986 1er Cru Classé  Bordeaux Pessac Leognan

To drink between 1996 and 2040

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95-100 / 100 Rated by 8 experts

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96 / 100
Robert PARKER - The Wine Advocate September - 2010
Robert PARKER - The Wine Advocate
Tasted at the La Mission/Haut-Brion dinner at The Ledbury. A second bottle from my cellar and it is almost identical with that engaging bouquet of fresh tobacco and here, a touch of Cohiba cigar! Again, the palate has a great deal of freshness and mineralite, perhaps even more cohesive than the previous bottle, with an foursquare but beautifully defined finish. Shame it is my last bottle. Drink now-2035
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95 / 100
Jeannie Cho Lee April - 2014
Jeannie Cho Lee
A classic Haut Brion that exudes tobacco and cedarbox flavours with round, supple tannins. Perfect to enjoy now, this wine has all the bottled aged complexity that one looks for in an Haut Brion at its peak.
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95 / 100
Jeff Leve - The Wine Cellar Insider March - 2016
Jeff Leve - The Wine Cellar Insider
At 30 years of age this can easily go another 30 years without breaking a sweat. There is a softness to the powerful, ever present tannins that the other top wines from 1986 do not display. The smoky, tobacco driven nose is a treat as well. 2 hours of air will help, and ten more years in the bottle will help even more!
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94 / 100
Jean-Marc Quarin December - 2016
Jean-Marc Quarin
Dark color, medium intensity and evolved. Aromatic nose, dominated by a note of tar. Beautiful silky entry on the palate, then the wine melts into a taste of fruit mixed with notes of pine wood, smoke and tar. The flavor, strange, recalls that of peated whiskies, but the physical presence of the wine in the mouth and the tactile construction are impeccable. Beautiful length. Fine tannins. A vintage particularly typical of Haut Brion.
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93 / 100
Falstaff February - 2011
Falstaff
Strong carmine garnet, broad ochre rim, orange reflections. On the nose ripe morello cherry-cherry fruit, delicate notes of chocolate and candied orange zest, fine tobacco spice, needs air. Juicy ripe plum fruit, pleasant extract sweetness, lively acid play, fine dark berry fruit on the finish, very balanced, medium complexity, delicate notes of dark chocolate on the aftertaste.
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92 / 100
Tom Cannavan January - 2000
Tom Cannavan
Dense, still crimson/black at core picking up ruby through to light orange at rim. Quite dank on the nose, quite vegetal at first, but the Haut-Brion profile of dark, tight, bittersweet black fruit begins to push through. On the palate juicy and savoury with a coffee-bean flavour mixing with plum, liquorice and a suggestion of coal. There are still quite grippy tannins and moderately high acidity that grip into the finish. This seems slightly awkward for Haut-Brion, but this massively tannic and structured vintage might just need more time.
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95 / 100
Cellar Tracker March - 2024
Cellar Tracker
A very powerful wine still! I openned 4 hrs in btl to serve and found tight in structure and tongue catching, but leaving in decanter for half an hr later, it shone as a top BDX. Dark brown cloudy, noble nose of old Bordeaux, mouthful feeling, long after taste. A perfect conclusion wine among other 86 vintages red for her.
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18.5/20
Jancis Robinson April - 2014
Jancis Robinson
Superb wine at the round, sweet peak of its powers. So sweet that I would never have guessed it was a 1986 and would probably have taken it for a Pomerol. Gorgeous stuff.
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Vintage Wine  1986
Classification Médoc - 1er Cru Classé 
Region Bordeaux
Appellation Pessac Leognan
Colour Red
Volume 0.75 l
Country France
Alcohol content 13.00% vol
Château Château Haut Brion
Château Haut Brion
Château Haut Brion

Château Haut-Brion is one of the most iconic wines of Bordeaux. In 1855, it received the supreme distinction of Premier Cru Classé, an exceptional recognition as it is the only non-Médoc estate to feature in the classification of the wines of the Médoc, while also being classified as a Cru Classé de Graves. It is today an absolute reference of the Pessac-Léognan appellation.

Its terroir, close to that of Château Latour, lends the wines of Haut-Brion a unique nobility. Without seeking extreme power, the wine stands out for its elegance, the finesse of its tannins and a remarkable aging potential, often considered one of the greatest in Bordeaux.

Château Haut-Brion is the oldest, and also the smallest in surface area, of the Bordeaux Premiers Grands Crus Classés, alongside Château Lafite Rothschild, Château Latour, Château Margaux and Château Mouton Rothschild. While the presence of the vine in the region dates back to Roman times, the first written mention of the vineyard dates from 1423. The estate was founded in 1525 by Jean de Pontac and quickly gained international renown. Its reputation was such that it played a part in the very birth of the notion of Grand Cru, mentioned as early as 1663 by Samuel Pepys in his famous diary. More recently, the estate belonged to Clarence Douglas Dillon, former United States Secretary of the Treasury, further adding to its prestige.

The first of the great classified growths to vinify in stainless steel vats, from 1961, the estate ages its red wines for up to twenty-four months in barrels produced largely by its own cooperage. Its great vintages mark the history of Bordeaux, from the 1931 wine and the post-war 1949 vintage to the modern benchmarks of the 1982 wine, the 1988 and the 1990 vintage, not forgetting the second wine Bahans Haut Brion, which has since become Le Clarence de Haut-Brion.

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