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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!



Regular price CHF 340.00 (75cl)
Regular price Sale price CHF 340.00 (75cl)
CHF 45.33/10cl
  • France Bordeaux
  • Merlot
    Cabernet Sauvignon
    Cabernet Franc
  • 5 - 30 years
  • 14.70% Vol.
Awards and reviews from professionals
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    Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
    The 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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    Decanter
    A 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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    Yves Beck
    Mission 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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    Jean-Marc Quarin
    Couleur 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

Country France
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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Château La Mission Haut-Brion 2020
Regular price CHF 340.00 (75cl)
Regular price Sale price CHF 340.00 (75cl)
Colour
Colour

Of a beautiful dark purple red.

Nose
Nose

Intense aromas of ripe red and black fruits, both fresh and ripe, enriched by beautiful spicy oak notes.

Palate
Palate

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

Château La Mission Haut-Brion

Located southwest of Bordeaux, Château La Mission Haut-Brion has been dedicated to viticulture since 1540. The Dillon family acquired the property in 1983, comprising 29 hectares of vines and forming part of the Pessac-Léognan appellation. The estate faces Château Haut-Brion and shares with it this vast gravel terrace, called Haut-Brion.
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