Address: 33850 Léognan Telephone: +33 (0)5 56 64 75 51 E-mail: contact@larrivethautbrion.fr Website: www.larrivethautbrion.fr Very attractive whites and reds here at Château Larrivet Haut-Brion. The property has been in the hands of the Gervoson family since 1987. Vineyard/Terroir: 72.5 hectares planted on gravel soil. Red varieties comprise 45% Cabernet Sauvignon, 50% Merlot and 5% Cabernet Franc […]

Address: 33608 Pessac Cedex Telephone: +33 (0)5 56 29 00 E-mail: visit@haut-brion.com Website: www.mission-haut-brion.com Owned by the Dillon family since the 1920s this property, sat across the road from Château Haut-Brion, had for many years been deadly rivals. Now the rivalry is friendly as Haut-Brion was acquired by the Dillon family in 1983 from the […]

Address: 135 avenue Jean Jaures, 33600 Pessac Telephone: +33 (0)5 56 00 29 30 E-mail: visites@haut-brion.com Website: www.haut-brion.com Terrific wines are made at Château Haut-Brion which has been owned by the American Dillon family since 1935. The red wine is wonderfully complex and roasted in character. The second wine is Le Clarence de Haut-Brion, formerly Bahans […]

It’s taken me a while to post these notes on seventy-three wines from the MW Institute’s horizontal 2016 Bordeaux tasting held at the very end of 2021. Looking back on the notes I’m reminded quite what a unique vintage this is. In a decade with at least three other contenders to greatness [2010, 2018 and […]