james laube's wine flights

Savoring a Classic 1961 Bordeaux

Haut-Brion still showing what made it a grand wine decades ago
Posted: Sep 16, 2009 10:29am ET

James Laube tastes the 1961 Haut-Brion, a wine that had it all: The aromas were sublime, with mineral, pebble, tobacco, dried currant and a loamy, earthy herbal edge that turned to the cedar of a cigar box.

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