Château La Mission Haut-Brion 2018

£1,500.00

IN BOND

Delivery 2021


Appellation - Pessac Leognan

Owner - Dilon family

42.9% Cabernet Sauvignon, 53.5% Merlot, 3.6% Cabernet Franc

Second wines – La Clarté Haut Brion, Ch La Chapelle de la Mission Haut-Brion

Annual production – 95,000 bottles

Tasting notes
The 2018 La Mission Haut-Brion is composed of 53.5% Merlot, 42.9% Cabernet Sauvignon and 3.6% Cabernet Franc, harvested September 10 to October 2. Deep purple-black in color, it slowly unfurls to reveal a beguiling nose of earth and soft-spoken fruit, opening with wild blueberries, wet slate, pencil lead and fresh black cherries giving way to a serious core of blackcurrant cordial, baked plums and wild sage, and then exposing delicate wafts of rose hip tea and candied violets. Full-bodied, the palate is very tightly wound and super intense with amazing restraint and energy focused around very firm, exquisitely fine-grained tannins and seamless freshness, finishing incredibly long and fantastically multilayered. Extraordinary wine.
Score: 98/100 Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW, Wine Advocate (April 2019), April 2019

 

A tight and linear red with fantastic oyster-shell, iodine and crushed-stone character, complementing the currants and blackberries. Extremely long and fresh.

Score: 97/98 James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com, April 2019

 

Deepest crimson with very dark core. Intense, pure aromatic cassis and a hint of cassis leaf, though fully ripe. Smells very Cabernet. And the tannins are upright and structured but extremely lithe and supple. No thickness here. Agile. Just a little chewy on the finish. So seemingly approachable and full of energy. 
Drink 2026-2040

Score: 17.5+ Julia Harding MW, JancisRobinson.com, April 2019

 

(53.5 Merlot, 42.9 Cabernet Sauvignon, 4.4 Cabernet Franc) | 62% new oak | 14.2 – 14.4% alc | 76 IPT | Harvested between 10th September and 2nd October This is a blunt and tough La Mission with muscle and power and it is not showing much fruit, preferring to lead with skin tannin and oak notes. The dryness and intensity of the skin derived flavours are rather arresting and this dents the flow of the wine across the palate. There are slight coffee bean notes and some tobacco details here, but overall this is a square, monolithic wine which needs a lot of time and also some serious softening of the tannins to fall into balance.

Score: 18+ Matthew Jukes, MatthewJukes.com, April 2019

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