Haut-Brion An Illustrious Lineage |
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| Author:
| Briggs, Asa |
| Series title: | Books on Wine |
| ISBN: | 978-0-571-17118-7 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1994 |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $14.95 |
Book Description:
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The first book to deal exclusively with Haut-Brion. Chateau Haut-Brion is one of the five first growths, and has very rich and interesting history. The wine was first announced well before any other bordeaux cru in the diary of Samuel Pepys, who wrote in 1663, 'To the Royall Oake Taverne in Lumburd-Street and here drank a sort of French wine, called Ho Bryan, that hath a good and most particular taste that I never met with.'
Haut-Brion has been written with the full cooperation and...
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The first book to deal exclusively with Haut-Brion. Chateau Haut-Brion is one of the five first growths, and has very rich and interesting history. The wine was first announced well before any other bordeaux cru in the diary of Samuel Pepys, who wrote in 1663, 'To the Royall Oake Taverne in Lumburd-Street and here drank a sort of French wine, called Ho Bryan, that hath a good and most particular taste that I never met with.'
Haut-Brion has been written with the full cooperation and encouragement of the owners, the Duc de Mouchy and his family. Asa Briggs, Chancellor of the Open University and former Provost of Worcester College, Oxford, has combined his skills as a historian and a judge of wines, white as well as red, to produce a fascinating and highly distinctive book.