Château

Château La Tour Haut-Brion

shah-TOH lah toor oh bree-OHN
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Capitals mark the stressed syllable. “ohn” is a nasal vowel: say it through the nose, with no n. The French r comes from the back of the throat. The recording is the reference.

A classified growth of the Graves that lived beside La Mission Haut-Brion under the same owners and ended with the 2005 vintage, when its wine went into La Chapelle de La Mission Haut-Brion.

Appellation
Pessac-Léognan

The château

La Tour Haut-Brion was one of the 16 growths of the first Graves classification, which the INAO published in 1953 and adjusted in 1959. It was an associated wine of La Mission Haut-Brion, and in 1983 it came with La Mission, and with Laville Haut-Brion, to Domaine Clarence Dillon. The 2005 was its last vintage; from then on its wine went into La Chapelle de La Mission Haut-Brion, the second wine of La Mission. The classification caught up in 2014, when La Tour Haut-Brion and Laville Haut-Brion were merged into Château La Mission Haut-Brion and the list came down to 14 growths.

At a glance

Appellation
Pessac-Léognan Terroir of Pessac-Léognan →
Classification
Cru Classé de Graves, 1953 and 1959; merged into Château La Mission Haut-Brion in 2014
Last owners
Domaine Clarence Dillon, from 1983
Wines
Château La Tour Haut-Brion, last vintage 2005; then part of La Chapelle de La Mission Haut-Brion

Sources

Institutions
Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux, the Graves classification; Syndicat Viticole de Pessac-Léognan, the Crus Classés de Graves

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The record

Château La Tour Haut-Brion was a Cru Classé de Graves; its vineyard is now part of Château La Mission Haut-Brion.

The classification of the Graves was approved in 1953 and completed in 1959. It has a single rank and 2 lists, red and white, and an estate may be classified for one and not the other.

Source: Syndicat Viticole de Pessac-Léognan, the Crus Classés de Graves

Private

By invitation only.

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