Celebrating 50 with a birth year wine
1975 Château Haut-Brion
Opened this tonight at Roots & Water and…wow. ’75 is a famously tough vintage in Bordeaux, but Haut-Brion is one of the few estates that actually thrived in it, and this bottle proved the point.
On the nose:
Pure old-school Graves — dusty cedar box, dried tobacco leaf, old library bookshelf vibes. A faint red-currant sweetness underneath the age, plus that classic Haut-Brion smoky-brick note.
On the palate:
Still alive. Medium-bodied, elegant, and way more structured than I expected for a 49-year-old wine. Tannins are resolved but not gone. Red currant, graphite, mushroom, cold fire-ash, and a touch of earthy truffle. Zero fruit bomb nonsense — just pure tertiary Bordeaux.
by Important-Air-6350
15 Comments
I love Roots & Water! Moved to Houston about 2 years ago and I still get my bottles from them! They are awesome!!
That is sick. Great wine mate.
Happy birthday! What a celebration.
Watch checks out, lol.
Before they were known as Diagio!
How was it?
Happy birthday, sir. Celebrating your 50th birthday with wine from your birth year is truly a special occasion, signifying a new chapter in your life.
Wow, just… wow!
Happy birthday, glad to have shared in spirit and happy that the bottle held up!!
Even nicer watch 😉
Happy birthday mate, glad you enjoyed
Damn wish I had that exact bottle for my 50th this year! Big congrats 🎉🍾
I’ve got a 1970 I’m ready to open. How was the fill level and cork? Do you know how it was stored all these years or did you take a shot at an auction house? Congrats!
Happy birthday!
Probably dead
Good for you. Love me a nice tertiary Bordeaux.