1947 Haut-Brion, Graves

Quite deep in colour, the bouquet offers scents of saddle-leather, sage, sous-bois and vestiges of what must have once been quite precocious red fruit. The palate is deep and rounded in texture. This is never a Haut-Brion of finesse though, instead, even after so many decades, there is so much flavour packed into this wine. Dominated by secondary notes, there are dried herbs, sandalwood, black olive and smoke, flecks of dried blood towards the satisfying finish. (NM)