1950 Haut Brion

The 1950 Haut-Brion is a remarkably saturated, opaque wine that still rewards extended aeration at nearly 72 years of age. Offering up rich aromas of raspberry liqueur, cigar box, black truffles, loamy soil and an exotic top note of dried apricots, it's full-bodied, deep and concentrated, with incredible levels of extract and a fleshy, layered core of fruit, concluding with an almost mordant finish. Remarkably, it's if anything even more powerful than the more famous 1950 La Mission Haut-Brion! In style, this prodigious wine is more reminiscent of the great Bordeaux of the 1920s than it is of surrounding vintages, and given a good cork, it should see out a century in style.