Word: brion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chateau Haut-Brion 1919?...
...only flaw in a perfect gastronomic symphony. The Chateau Haut-Brion of 1919 is definitely to light for the true connoisseurs of such heroic, full-bodied, red grands vins, and a surprising number of bottles of this year have not kept well...
...soup, Moselle with the fish, and then we should really begin-we should start drinking clarets!" If to some tyros "claret" means the cheapest sort of vinegary red wine, it means to the initiate a splendorous ascending scale of Bordeaux reds, culminating in massive, regal Châateau Haut-Brion and finally in sublime Chateau Lafite, a wine possessing so grand a flavor and bouquet as to make mere Champagne an anticlimax. After recovering from the ecstacy of sniffing and sipping red Chateau Lafite. however, Mr. George Reeves-Smith likes to end with a white Chateau Yquem, "the sweetest, most...