1999 Haut Brion Bordeaux Blend

Bordeaux Blend - 750ML
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REVIEWS

JL 93 WA 93 JS 92 JD 92 NM 92 WS 92
JL 93

TheWineCellarInsider.com, May 2014

Served blind, this was much better than I would have thought, given the vintage. Soft, delicate, medium bodied, with an elegance to the fruit and texture, this is drinking great today. With luck, in a few years, it could...
WA 93

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, April 2002

Deep plum, currant, and mineral notes emerge from the concentrated, beautifully balanced, pure 1999 Haut Brion. It seems to be cut from the same mold as years such as 1979 and 1985. There is a hint of graphite in the...
JS 92

jamessuckling.com, January 2017

Aromas of tobacco, hints of forest floor. Full-bodied, open and flavorful. Herbs and spice. Drink now.
JD 92

jebdunnuck.com, February 2023

Based on 60% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Sauvignon, and the rest Cabernet Franc, the 1999 Château Haut-Brion offers classic Haut-Brion scorched earth and smokiness as well as loads of ripe currant and darker fruits, leafy herbs...
NM 92

Neal Martin's Wine Journal, May 2014

Tasted at Bordeaux Index lunch. The Chateau Haut-Brion 1999 is an off-vintage that should not be overlooked. At now 14 years of age it has developed a sensual bouquet with black truffle infusing the blackberry and cedar...
WS 92

Wine Spectator, March 2010

Delivers cooked berries with light cream aromas that turn to tobacco and cedar. Full-bodied featuring big yet well-integrated tannins and a chewy finish. Needs time still to mellow. Serious.-'89/'99 Bordeaux blind...

WINE DETAILS

Color & Type Red
Varietal Bordeaux Blend
Country France
Region Bordeaux
Sub-region Pessac Leognan
Vintage 1999
Size 750ML

The oldest of Bordeaux’s five first growths and the only property outside the Medoc to be included in the 1855 Classification, Chateau Haut-Brion was founded by Jean de Pontac in 1533. The name derives from the Celtic word briga, meaning “hill” or “high place”, and refers to the gravelly elevated terrain situated between the Le Peuge and Le Serpent streams.

History shows that as early as 1660, Haut-Brion wines were already appreciated at royal tables as evidenced by the purchase of 169 bottles by King Charles II of England, noted in the royal cellar book. Among the wine’s admirers are the famous London diarist Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Jefferson, who had distinguished the wine’s quality long before the 1855 Classification.

Arnaud III de Pontac was responsible for building the estate’s international reputation and for creating a new style of wine that is the basis for all currently classified growths - an era which historians have described as a revolution in winemaking.

Chateau Haut-Brion was acquired by the American financier Clarence Dillon on May 13, 1935 and has been managed by the same family since. Much of the estate’s success is also credited to the Delmas family, who have worked the estate for three generations. Nearly five centuries after the creation of its vineyard and 350 years after the first published mention under its current name, Chateau Haut-Brion remains one of the finest wines in the world today.

Haut-Brion’s grand vin is the embodiment of five centuries of tradition and plays a pivotal role in the worldwide history of wine. It is the oldest of the Bordeaux classed growths, the inventor of a new style of wine fashioned in the seventeenth century, and considered the world’s first luxury brand.

Typically more Merlot dominant than other Left Bank wines, the terroir of Haut-Brion is expressed through its empyreumatic bouquet (Havana cigars, chocolate, roasting, cedar wood, and so on). The attack is restrained, with precise yet exceedingly soft tannins. But the power of this wine is revealed in the surprising long mid-palate and even longer finish.