{"title":"Bahans Haut-Brion","description":"\u003cp\u003eBahans Haut-Brion is a more affordable way into one of Bordeaux's five First Growths: it is the second wine of Château Haut-Brion, grown in the same vineyard. It also has a fixed place in history, because from the 2007 vintage the wine was renamed Le Clarence de Haut-Brion, in honor of Clarence Dillon, the American banker who bought the estate in 1935. Every bottle labeled Bahans is therefore a 2006 or older, which makes it a natural fit for anyone looking for mature claret.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaut-Brion itself goes back to 1525 and the Pontac family, and in 1855 it was the only Graves estate ranked among the original First Growths. The vines sit on deep gravel in Pessac and Talence, now surrounded by the suburbs of Bordeaux. The name Bahans comes from a former château, and the family who owned it, whose land was folded into the vineyard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe wine is built from younger vines and lots not chosen for the grand vin, blended from Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc in proportions that shift with the vintage. Expect the smoky, gravelly character of Haut-Brion in a slightly more forward frame, and decant older bottles before serving.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"chateau-bahans-haut-brion-pessac-leognan-2000-ac-delta-a","title":"Chateau Bahans Haut Brion, Pessac Leognan, 2000","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe second wine of Chateau Haut-Brion from one of Bordeaux's great modern vintages, now twenty-six years old and ready to pour tonight. Bahans draws on the same vineyard as the grand vin: deep Gunzian gravel, more than three metres of it in places, over clay and sand in Pessac, where the heat those stones hold and the city that has grown up around the property make it one of the earliest-ripening addresses in Bordeaux. It is the usual Pessac blend of Merlot and the two Cabernets, and the label itself is now a piece of history, since from the 2007 vintage the wine was renamed Le Clarence de Haut-Brion. The 2000 was ripe and classically proportioned from the start, and at this age the smoke-and-gravel signature of the address has fully emerged. Decant it and drink it over the next few years rather than cellaring further.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Acker Merrall \u0026 Condit [AC]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46267742322745,"sku":"NYC-A-AC-DELTA-073126-CBHBPL2000-ROW3-BOX 12","price":199.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Chateau-Bahans-Haut-Brion-Pessac-Leognan-2000-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1786199946"},{"product_id":"bahans-haut-brion-pessac-leognan-2001","title":"Bahans Haut-Brion, Pessac-Leognan, 2001","description":"A First Growth's second wine, now more than two decades old. This is the red second label of Château Haut-Brion, bottled under the Bahans name until the 2007 vintage, when it was renamed Le Clarence in tribute to Clarence Dillon, who bought the property in 1935. The house makes no secret of the intent: same style and elegance as the grand vin, but a wine built to reach maturity faster — which is exactly why a 2001 is the interesting bottle to be buying now rather than laying down. The fruit comes off the same gravel terrace in Pessac, a few miles southwest of central Bordeaux, where the Romans spotted the virtues of those tiny quartz pebbles two thousand years ago, and where Haut-Brion remains the only estate that is both an 1855 First Growth and a Classified Growth of Graves. For anyone who wants the Haut-Brion signature without the grand vin's ransom and its decade of patience, this is the sensible way in.","brand":"Acker Merrall \u0026 Condit [AC]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46531323330617,"sku":"NYC-A-AKALASKA0926-091726-10-12","price":199.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Bahans-Haut-Brion-Pessac-Leognan-2001-Red-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1789722052"}],"url":"https:\/\/nyc.flatiron-wines.com\/collections\/bahans-haut-brion.oembed","provider":"Flatiron Wines \u0026 Spirits NYC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}