La Mission Haut Brion 2008

La Mission Haut Brion 2008

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  • Vinous rating 96
  • Robert Parker rating 95
  • Jancis Robinson rating 95
La Mission Haut Brion 2008
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75 cl

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£230.00
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Owned by the French company Domaine Clarence Dillon, Château La Mission Haut-Brion can trace its history back to the 16th century. The prestigious estate is situated within the Pessac-Léognan appellation, a few miles southwest of Bordeaux’s city centre. The 2008 vintage a blend of 51% Cabernet Sauvignon, 43% Merlot and 6% Cabernet Franc, aged in a combination of new and used oak barrels. The nose is wide open from the start, a clean and pure fruit profile with great complexity. black fruits and a little touch of olives and herbs. Perfect balance on the palate too.
96 Vinous
The 2008 La Mission Haut-Brion has an open, feisty, lively bouquet with blackberry, briary, cedar, black olive and a light seaweed (Japanese nori) aroma. This is wonderful, an intoxicating bouquet. The palate is beautifully balanced with a fine bead of acidity, very focused with good weight and structure. This is a very convincing showing, at the moment more pleasurable than the 2008 Haut-Brion, just so fresh and complex, offering a discrete tertiary, smoke-tinged finish that goes on and on. One of the best 2008s out there. (Tasted at BI Wine & Spirit’s annual 10-Year On tasting.)Neal Martin1st February 2018
95 Jancis Robinson
Like a lot of wines in this underrated vintage, the 2008 La Mission was one of the great bargains of recent vintages. Its healthy blue/purple color is followed by aromas of blueberries, black raspberries, licorice, truffles, underbrush and forest floor. The scorched earthy/smoky character of this estate’s terroir has not yet emerged. Medium to full-bodied and concentrated with good acidity, freshness and delineation, this is a big wine for the vintage, but also very classic in its balance of tannin, acidity and extract. It will benefit from another 5-7 years of cellaring and should keep for three decades. The final blend was 51% Cabernet Sauvignon, 43% Merlot and 6% Cabernet Franc.Robert Parker31st August 2012

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Château La Mission Haut-Brion is one of the preeminent estates in the Pessac-Léognan appellation and is renowned for producing exceptionally concentrated and long-lived wines. The prestigious first label, La Mission Haut-Brion, is a near equal blend of Cabernet and Merlot, giving wonderfully focused wines with bramble and floral character. This illustrious estate also produces a stellar second label, La Chapelle de la Mission Haut-Brion.

Two beautiful whites are made: La Mission Haut-Brion Blanc, which is a aromatic, Sémillon-dominant blend with beautiful citrus and stone fruit, and a second white, La Clarté de Haut Brion (which also takes grapes from the Château Haut-Brion estate).

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