17 JR Served blind alongside Petrus 1975. At first the wine seemed a bit too old and a bit decayed with a strong rusty nails character but in the glass it actually cleaned up a bit and there was the vestige of old glory. A...
94 JD / 91 WA / 90 WS / 17.5 JR The 1975 Haut Brion is fully mature, yet is certainly one of the finest wines in the vintage. Its plummy color is followed by a classic Haut Brion bouquet of ripe blackcurrants, plums,...
98 RP One of the best wines of the vintage as well as the most concentrated and tannic Petrus of the seventies, the 1975 is a blockbuster wine, opulently rich, still broodingly dark in color, and massive. This wine has...
93 VM Bottles of 1975 Vieux Château Certan have been a little inconsistent over the years, although when it is on form it can represent the high point of the decade. Plump black plum on the nose with a distinctive...