Chateau Haut-Brion 1961
Chateau Haut-Brion 1961
In Bond, excludes duty and VAT · 6x75cl
In bond price shown. Duty and VAT quoted on enquiry · 6x75cl
1 case available
From one of our suppliers. Usually ready 6 to 8 weeks after your order is confirmed.
UK duty is charged on a wine's alcohol strength (ABV). Until we have confirmed the ABV of this wine we cannot take a duty-paid order, so a duty-paid basket is sent to us as an enquiry. We reply with a delivered price including duty and VAT. Nothing is charged until you accept it.
Couldn't load pickup availability
Chateau Haut-Brion 1961, offered In Bond from one of our suppliers, usually ready 6 to 8 weeks after your order is confirmed, in 6x75cl and 12x75cl. Choose a size above; the price shown is for the size chosen, In Bond UK.
Duty and VAT are payable only if you later withdraw the wine from bond. Transfers between bonded accounts are arranged by our team after purchase.
Case price £16,923.00 In Bond, excludes duty and VATIn bond price. Duty and VAT quoted on enquiry
Equivalent price per bottle £2,820.50 In Bond, excludes duty and VATIn bond price. Duty and VAT quoted on enquiry
1 available, 6x75cl
Offered in bond. Duty and VAT are not included and become payable only if the wine is withdrawn from bond. Transfers between bonded accounts are arranged by our team after purchase.
UK duty is charged on a wine's alcohol strength (ABV). Until we have confirmed the ABV of this wine we cannot take a duty-paid order, so a duty-paid basket is sent to us as an enquiry. We reply with a delivered price including duty and VAT.
This wine comes from one of our suppliers and is usually ready 6 to 8 weeks after your order is confirmed.
Offered subject to availability. We confirm every wine with the supplier before your order is finalised, and contact you the same working day if anything has changed.
Questions about this wine? Speak to our team
- Format
- 6x75cl
- Vintage
- 1961
- Producer
- Chateau Haut-Brion
- Origin
- Pessac-Léognan, France
- Type
- Red
- Duty status
- In Bond
- Availability
- From our supplier, 6 to 8 weeks
What the critics say
100 WAWine Advocate, Robert Parker, 01-01-1998
The dark garnet-colored 1961 Haut-Brion is pure perfection, with gloriously intense aromas of tobacco, cedar, chocolate, minerals, and sweet red and black fruits complemented by smoky wood. This has always been a prodigious effort (it was the debut vintage for Jean Delmas). It is extremely full-bodied, with layers of viscous, sweet fruit. This wine is akin to eating candy. Consistently an astonishing wine! Anticipated maturity: Now-2005. Last tasted 3/97
Drink 1997 to 2005
98 VMVinous, Neal Martin, 02-12-2025
The 1961 Haut-Brion came from an ex-château bottle that had been sold at auction. This is a case where the wine was deeply impressive throughout dinner and then, after most people had departed, soared to the heavens for the four guests that remained, fortunately including myself. A pertinent reminder of how such wines require decanting. Heavenly purity on the nose, this is utterly sublime, leaning more towards the red side of the spectrum, verging on Burgundian for the first couple of hours before reverting to classic scents of blackberry, gravel and that distant estuarine note. Wonderful delineation. The palate is framed by pliant tannins that effortlessly carry the sensual, surprisingly primal and precocious black fruit. Certainly after three or four hours, the tannins have been completely subsumed into this Graves so that the finish is completely seamless, its sapidity drawing you back for more. For many, the best wine of the night. Tasted at the 1961 dinner at Ami restaurant in Hong Kong.
Drink 2025 to 2050
Scores supplied through Liv-ex
Share
