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When are our wines ready to be drunk ?
The answer is quite subtle: great improvements have been made in vine-growing and wine-making over the last 15 years.
We now pick perfectly ripe grapes wich make smoother wines than the past. These young wines may be drunk earlier if you like them full-bodied and oaky.
They will gain in elegance with a few years ageing, 10 or 15 years for the greater vintages.

Château Hanteillan

2004 Structure
Laying down
Please leave this beautiful classic vintage age in your cellar until 2007.
2003 Structure
Laying down ()
The midsummer heat produced a very powerfull plump vintage. Gentlemen love to drink it already.
2002 Structure
Laying down
May be drunk now or should be aged a while.
Longevity : 2010-2012.
2001 Structure
Laying down
May be drunk now, very aromatic.
2000 Structure
Laying down
Should be aged but it is not forbidden to drink it now, as my 27-years-old son, Antoine, does !
1999 Structure
Laying down
Enjoyable to drink right away and during the next 4 or 5 years.
1998 Structure
Laying down
The most enjoyable vintage to be drunk now.

Château Laborde et Château Blagnac
These two wines are made from our younger vines, they are less full-bodied than Château Hanteillan.
To be drunk 2 years after the harvest, or aged 4 to 5 years in your cellar.

Happy wine tasting !

Catherine BLASCO


Origin of the name Hanteillan

The historical archives propose the following explanation:


Anteillan : from the Gallic name Antenus and the suffix Anum, it is thought that Antenaium later became Anteianum.



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Le Vin des Nanas.

In 2004, we decided to make a special blend from younger vines , we called it "le vin des Nanas".
Nana means  "chick" in colloquial language, just because there is a majority of women in Hanteillan.


This wine is fruity and well bodied, it is a true "Bordeaux", allowed to gentlemen as well, drinkable now and until 2009.