Château Mouton d'Armaillhacq 1928 is a very rare opportunity to taste a truly great and legendary Bordeaux vintage - from a château whose name has changed four times since!

This wine is in very good condition from a great pre-war vintage, which benefited from a very hot summer producing beautifully ripe grapes with huge tannin levels resulting in extraordinary ageworthy wines.

Château d'Armailhacq is the estate's orginal name from its inception in 1750 up until 1955 when it became Mouton-Baron Philippe. It was then changed to Mouton Baronne, followed by Mouton-Baronne-Philippe, and from 1988 to the present day, the better known Château Mouton-d'Armaillhac.

"A vintage which was both fine and bizarre, monumental but controversial, was the 1928 in Bordeaux. Widely lauded at the outset, the wines subsequently turned out to be much harder and more tannic than originally anticipated, were eclipsed by the softer, exquisitely concentrated 1929s, and stubbornly refused to come round. Yet come round they eventually did, and all of all the vintages ever produced in Bordeaux, save perhaps the fabled 1870s, this is the vintage which could be the longest lasting of all." Clive Coates MW