Château La Mission Haut-Brion 2020
Red wine | Cru Classé de Graves, Pessac-Léognan AC
The Mission takes its name from the "priests of the Mission" who cultivated the Château's vines at the time. According to Robert Parker, "La Mission has long been one of the best wines and one of the most consistent in terms of quality." Certainly the most mysterious wine in the Haut-Brion line!
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France Bordeaux
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Merlot
Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet Franc 5 - 30 years
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14.70% Vol.
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100 100Robert Parker's Wine AdvocateThe 2020 La Mission Haut-Brion is a brilliant effort that exhibits a level of balance and integration that are impressive in such a powerful young Bordeaux. Unwinding in the glass with aromas of dark berries and plums mingled with burning embers, pencil shavings, violets and smoked black tea, it's full-bodied, deep and concentrated, with a layered, elegantly muscular profile, its brooding core of fruit framed by a generous endowment of powdery tannin that tempers the ripeness of the vintage. Checking in at 14.7% alcohol, it's nonetheless more classically styled than the more flamboyant 2019 vintage or even the slowly maturing 2010 which I re-tasted alongside for context. Drinking window: 2035 - 2065. William Kelley. April 2023
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98 100DecanterA kick of black fruit and confident spice right from the first nose, this is an intense and concentrated La Mission, tightly in control, not letting up from beginning to end. The pencil lead and bitter dark chocolate is layered in between the cassis notes in a way that makes you see the Cabernet influence although this is majority Merlot (once again - this is a character of the year, low yields of Cabernet mean Merlot is more featured in the blend than usual; but the intensity of the Cabernets mean that it still has an outsized influence on flavour profile). Grilled coffee beans overtake on the close of play, this is seductive and switches beautifully between the tannins pressing in on the palate and the juice expanding things outwards. This is the wine to go for in the Domaines Clarence Dillon stable this year. Harvest from 7th to 29th September. Drinking window: 2030 - 2050. Jane Anson. May 2021.
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97 100Yves BeckMission Haut Brion s’affiche avec une certaine réserve, mais avec un sens aigu du détail au travers de nuances fruitées plutôt noires. Juteux en attaque, le vin dispose d’une matière élégante, mais encore serrée. Quelle trame tannique et quelle finesse de grain. La notion énergétique que La Chapelle affichait est bien présente également, néanmoins de manière plus cristalline, plus pertinente. Un vin qui a de grandes ambitions et qui est paré pour quelques décennies. 2027-2050. Décembre 2022.
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97 100Jean-Marc QuarinCouleur sombre, intense et pourpre. Grand nez complexe, intense, profond, noble et suave. Ouh là là, quel plaisir ! Immédiatement minutieux dans sa texture, le vin se pâme en milieu de bouche, il caresse le palais, fond, puis sa stimulation s’accélère. Il s‘achève puissant, long, complexe, sur des arômes de fruits noirs avec un retour de nuances fumées dans la persistance et un grain de tannin très fin. Assemblage : 48,6 % merlot, 43,2 % cabernet sauvignon, 8,2 % cabernet franc. Degré d’alcool : 14°7 – pH : 3,85 (moyenne +) – IPT : 74. Rendement : 42,4 hl/ha. Production : 50,2 % de la récolte. Avril 2021.
Features
Features
| Country | France |
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| Region | Bordeaux |
| Sub-region | Graves, Pessac-Léognan |
| Wine type | Red wine |
| Designation | Cru Classé de Graves, Pessac-Léognan AC |
| Grape variety | Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc |
| Alcohol content | 14.70% Vol. |
| Cellaring | 5 - 30 years |
| Serving temperature | 16 - 18°C |

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Of a beautiful dark purple red.
Intense aromas of ripe red and black fruits, both fresh and ripe, enriched by beautiful spicy oak notes.
Round, fleshy and full-bodied on the palate, revealing sensations that are both tight and juicy, the wine stretches out with a refined tannic presence, rich in flavour and full of pleasure on the finish.
Château La Mission Haut-Brion is located directly opposite Château Haut-Brion, in the commune of Talence, in an urbanised area within the Pessac-Léognan appellation. The soils of this vineyard are sandy and gravelly, with a clay-sand subsoil.
Fermentation in 180 hl stainless steel vats with temperature control, aged for 22 months in oak barrels (77% new).
Cork
Wooden box