2024 La Mission Haut Brion
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The 2024 La Mission Haut-Brion has a distinctively elegant, floral nose with interchanging red and black berry aromas. This is beautiful on the palate, luscious and bright with balance and well-integrated tannins, the fruit’s ripeness complemented by hints of liquorice and white pepper. The finish is marked by a slight bitterness that elevate the liquorice notes and provides a very clean and pure finish. This is a fierce La Mission Haut-Brion that stands proudly alongside its big brother in 2024. Aged in 75% new oak. 13.2% alcohol and 3.65pH. Blend: 51% Cabernet Sauvignon, 46.5% Merlot, 2.5% Cabernet Franc
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Yohan Castaing, Wine Advocate
Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux
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Notes of dark berries, spices, mulberries and discreet hints of new oak preface the 2024 La Mission Haut-Brion, a medium to full-bodied, dense and attractively seamless wine for the vintage, with a textural mid-palate that's underpinned by a firm chassis of tannins, concluding with a long, broad and rather ripe finish. Slightly austere at this stage, it is likely to flesh out with élevage, developing into a structured and serious La Mission with promising aging potential. Like its sibling Haut-Brion, the estate benefited from its intramural location in Pessac, which allowed for more complete ripening in a year that posed greater challenges for some other Pessac-Léognan properties.
Medium to full intensity, vibrant plum colour, this is elegant and balanced, with the same juicy orchard apple character that you find in La Chapelle, along with cloves, incense, slate, crayon and baking spice, lots of complexity and balance. The aromatics are a little subdued right now but this has ageing ability and estate signature. 5.3 press, 75% new oak, 26hl/h yield.
The 2024 La Mission Haut-Brion is such a classy wine. Strong floral and savory notes meld into a core of plum, blackberry, gravel, spice, leather, tobacco and incense. Medium in body, with no hard edges, the 2024 is a delight. It offers lovely freshness and energy throughout. There is a bit of graininess in the tannin, a reminder of the challenges of the growing season.
About the producer
Ch. la Mission Haut-Brion – sister estate of Ch. Haut-Brion and part of the Clarence Dillon stable – is one of the greatest estates in all of Bordeaux. Based in Pessac-Léognan but not officially classified, it produces outstanding red and white wines.