Chateau La Mission Haut-Brion Cru Classe, Pessac-Leognan 2020
Standard - 75cl
Stock location: United Kingdom
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- Vintage2020
- ColourRed
- ProducerChateau La Mission Haut-Brion
- CountryFrance
- RegionBordeaux
- Sub RegionPessac-Leognan
- DesignationAOP
- Bottle SizeStandard - 75cl
- ABV14.5
- LWIN10131792020
- Avg. Critic Score4.9★★★★★★★★★★
Wine Critic Reviews
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
- Reviewer Name: William Kelley
- Review Date: April 2023
The 2020 La Mission Haut-Brion has a very pure bouquet with crushed violet infusing the mixture of blueberry and blackberry fruit, scents of cassis emerging with time. The oak is wonderfully integrated. The palate is medium-bodied with a cashmere texture and lavish new oak that is perfectly knitted to the filigree tannins. Very precise and very persistent on the finish, this fans out gloriously, Jean-Philippe Delmas conjured a sensational La Mission this year. Tasted blind at the annual Southwold tasting.
- Drinking Window: 2032 - 2065
- Reviewer Name: Neal Martin
- Review Date: November 2024