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2025 Ch Haut Brion 1er Grand Cru Classé Pessac-Léognan - 6x75cl
06C5HAUB6PK _ 2025 - Ch Haut Brion 1er Grand Cru Classé Pessac-Léognan - 6x75cl
  • Colour Red
  • Producer Château Haut-Brion
  • Region Pessac-Léognan
  • Grape Cabernet Sauvignon / Merlot / Cabernet Franc
  • Drinking 2032 - 2075
  • Case size 6x75cl
  • Available En Primeur

2025 - Ch Haut Brion 1er Grand Cru Classé Pessac-Léognan - 6x75cl

  • Colour Red
  • Producer Château Haut-Brion
  • Region Pessac-Léognan
  • Grape Cabernet Sauvignon / Merlot / Cabernet Franc
  • Drinking 2032 - 2075
  • Case size 6x75cl
  • Available En Primeur
Case price: £1,668.00 In Bond
Please note: These wines are lying abroad until shipping and can only be purchased In Bond. If you are an existing Private Reserves customer, the wine will be automatically transferred on arrival. Otherwise, you will be contacted on arrival in the UK to arrange delivery, In Bond storage in Private Reserves or another bonded warehouse.
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  • Goedhuis Waddesdon, April 2026, Score: 100+

    Oh my, where do we start! Writing my report 4 days later and I can still almost taste the brilliance of this extraordinary wine. This potentially goes beyond perfection… A stunning array of scents covering lavender, summer pudding fruits, cedar, cigar box and a gloriously refreshing lifted herbal edge. It leaps out from the glass, with a fabulous juicy richness showing the very best of the Merlot (62%) and poise and depth of its Cabernets (38%). Building progressively on the palate, more brooding in nature than La Mission, this is an absolute classic, with an old-fashioned medicinal undercurrent, thought provoking and complex. The tannins are careful and precise, complete in nature supporting the wines natural weight of fruit and light freshness. There is such an aristocratic stature, and I can’t wait to taste again as it surely could be the wine of the vintage. A generational wine to be enjoyed by many!

  • Neal Martin, May 2026, Score: 98-100

    The 2025 Haut-Brion was picked from September 1 (slightly later than La Mission) to September 18 at 29 hl/ha. Aged in 59% new oak, this has a very pure and elegant bouquet with ebullient brambly red fruit, crushed stone, potpourri and touches of Earl Grey. Wonderful delineation and a little more refined than, say, the 2020 or 2022. The palate is medium-bodied with very fine tannins, and there is more complexity here than La Mission, more depth and minéralité. Fresh and marine-tinged towards the finish that makes you want to come back. This year, the First Growth has put a bit of distance between itself and La Mission. Drink 2035-2070

  • Wine Advocate, April 2026, Score: 98-100

    The 2025 Haut-Brion is, as usual, more reserved and austere at this stage than La Mission, unwinding in the glass to reveal notions of dark wild berries mingled with spices, pencil leaf and licorice. Medium- to full-bodied, dense and layered, it’s built around a multidimensional core of fruit framed by structuring yet well-integrated tannins, delivering a notably controlled expression of power and concluding with a long, perfumed, subtly ethereal finish. While still tightly knit at this stage, it possesses considerable depth—IPT (an alaytical measure of tannic concentration) levels exceeding 100, rarely observed—that is perfectly controlled and will require extended cellaring. Recent refinements in the estate’s approach, notably in viticulture, are translating into fruit of greater balance and freshness, even under the warm, dry conditions of 2025. It stands as one of the more impressive renditions of Haut-Brion in recent years.

  • Antonio Galloni, April 2026, Score: 96-98

    The 2025 Haut-Brion is quite the powerhouse. Black fruit, cloves, new leather, tobacco, chocolate and menthol open before a wave of huge tannins and incisive acids take over. Haut-Brion can be rather dark and somber. That is very much the case with the 2025, a wine that speaks with sepia-toned, baritone inflections. It also conveys more obvious ripeness than La Mission Haut-Brion at this stage. Drink 2035-2075.

  • Jancis Robinson, May 2026, Score: 18/20

    62% Merlot, 26.2% Cabernet Sauvignon, 11.8% Cabernet Franc. 26 hl/ha. Cask sample. Lifted and fresh. More perceptible acidity than La Mission. Really powerful tannic frame but less velvety and plush than some years. Plenty of vigour but clearly a work in progress. Drink 2035-2055

  • Goedhuis Waddesdon, April 2026, Score: 100+

    Oh my, where do we start! Writing my report 4 days later and I can still almost taste the brilliance of this extraordinary wine. This potentially goes beyond perfection… A stunning array of scents covering lavender, summer pudding fruits, cedar, cigar box and a gloriously refreshing lifted herbal edge. It leaps out from the glass, with a fabulous juicy richness showing the very best of the Merlot (62%) and poise and depth of its Cabernets (38%). Building progressively on the palate, more brooding in nature than La Mission, this is an absolute classic, with an old-fashioned medicinal undercurrent, thought provoking and complex. The tannins are careful and precise, complete in nature supporting the wines natural weight of fruit and light freshness. There is such an aristocratic stature, and I can’t wait to taste again as it surely could be the wine of the vintage. A generational wine to be enjoyed by many!

  • Jane Anson, April 2026, Score: 97

    Such a taut, slate-strewn journey through the palate here, slow burn, love it. An exceptional Haut-Brion, with beautiful toasted cumin and sandalwood notes, cloves, cassis, pomegranate and cocoa beans. Muscular, structured, brooding, this is going to run and run. 59% new oak. 27hl/ha yield. Alcohols among lowest on record, and yet intensely concenrated. 3.72ph Harvest September 1 to 18. 59% new oak. 62% of production in this 1st wine.

Producer

Château Haut-Brion

Arguably the oldest recognised Bordeaux grand cru, Haut Brion has been owned by the American Dillon family since 1935. The Château was an early moderniser - the first estate to implement steel vats in 1961 - and over the years, their incredible investments have re-established the inherent quality of this property, enabling it to emerge as possibly the most consistent first growth since the 1980s. Situated in Pessac-Léognan ...Read more

Arguably the oldest recognised Bordeaux grand cru, Haut Brion has been owned by the American Dillon family since 1935. The Château was an early moderniser - the first estate to implement steel vats in 1961 - and over the years, their incredible investments have re-established the inherent quality of this property, enabling it to emerge as possibly the most consistent first growth since the 1980s. Situated in Pessac-Léognan in Graves, the estate is the only classified growth located outside the Médoc. Château Haut Brion has the most Merlot and the most Cabernet Franc of any of the First Growths and the second wine is Le Clarence de Haut-Brion, known as Ch Bahans Haut Brion prior to 2007.Read less

Region

Pessac-Léognan

Stretching from the rather unglamorous southern suburbs of Bordeaux, for 50 km along the left bank of the river Garonne, lies Graves. Named for its gravelly soil, a relic of Ice Age glaciers, this is the birthplace of claret, despatched from the Middle Ages onwards from the nearby quayside to England in vast quantities. It can feel as though Bordeaux is just about red wines, but some sensational white wines are produced in this area from a blend of sauvignon blanc, Semillon and, occasionally, muscadelle grapes, often fermented and aged in barrel. In particular, Domaine de Chevalier is renowned for its superbly complex whites, which continue to develop in bottle over decades. A premium appellation, Pessac-Leognan, was created in 1987 for the most prestigious terroirs within Graves. These are soils with exceptional drainage, made up of gravel terraces built up in layers over many millennia, and consequently thrive in mediocre vintages but are less likely to perform well in hotter years. These wines were appraised and graded in their own classification system in 1953 and updated in 1959, but, like the 1855 classification system, this should be regarded with caution and the wines must absolutely be assessed on their own current merits.

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