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• Romz Likes this wine: 93 points

  March 23, 2024 - Medium-bodied with a silky texture that coats the palate elegantly. The wine exhibits a balanced acidity that adds freshness.
  TB paired with our beef, this was just exquisite. Love the minerality & fresh acidity that balanced up the buttery flavors from the A5 Miyazaki. Intense complex aromas of black fruits; blackberries & blackcurrants, mingled with notes of tobacco, leather, and subtle hints of cedar & spice. Ripe black fruits dominate, complemented by layers of earthy tones, & tobacco leaf.

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• GooseGoose Likes this wine: 95 points

  February 10, 2024 - Black currant, leather, oak. Decanted for 2+ hours. Will continue to benefit from a few more years.

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• Rune Schwartz Likes this wine: 93 points

  January 13, 2024 - Elegant style with excellent fruit in perfect balance with fresh acid and smooth tannins. Elegant style.

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• Cailles wrote: 92 points

  November 23, 2022 - Ten Vintages Haut Bailly vs Mission HB: Preamble: All wines tasted blind in 10 vintage flights (1994-2015). To every flight one random third wine from Pessac Leognan added (2x Haut Brion, 2x Smith, 2x Pape Clement, 1x Branon, 1x Luchy Halde, 1x Carmes, 1x Chevalier). All wines opened a few hours before consumption but no decanting.
  
  Some findings:
  1) Haut Bailly outperformed Mission (5 vs 4 wins, 92.5 vs 90.5 average). 2) Haut Bailly is a rather structured wine which seems to shine bright in ripe and warm vintages, without any form of excess ripeness or extraction. 3) When done right (05/15), Mission eclipses Haut Bailly with its depth and delineation , but several vintages showed a bit too ripe but especially with the alcohol not well masked (09/10). 4) Pessac wines usually need quite some air to open up. In this setting (no decanting), most wines needed a lot of swirling to fully open up and will need more cellar time. 5) The best wines today were Haut Bailly 09 (96pts) & 10 (95pts) and Mission 05 & 15 (95pts).
  
  TN: Very discrete nose. On the palate more open and round, with a fine streak of acidity. Not enough fruit or substance to excite but only with time there comes fine blue and red fresh fruit forward, rendering it fine and round. Good but without exceptionalism. All 3 2011s showed well but do not have the depth of better vintages as well as probably a touch too pronounced acidity.
  
  Decanting: Two hours should help here.

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• dnnk88 Likes this wine: 92 points

  July 18, 2020 - Another CHL Wine Night!: Foundations are there. Needs more time though, I would give this 3 - 5 years at least. 92/93

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2011
• Type Red
• Producer Château La Mission Haut-Brion
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Graves
• Appellation Pessac-Léognan
• UPC Codes 0649944020868, 3286171509123, 3453521201840, 802236001246

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• Pending Delivery 95 (5%)
• In Cellars 1,680 (89%)
• Consumed 110 (6%)

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