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Community Tasting Notes 23
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plho wrote:
February 7, 2024 - Decant for 3 hours. Drinking beautifully
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Sean Tay Likes this wine: 95 points
July 11, 2023 - Pronounced nose intensity with black fruits, black currant, lead, vanilla, coffee, chocolate. Medium+ acidity and medium+ tannin. Tannin is velvety. Long finish. Will improve with ageing.
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Gas Station Wine Guy Likes this wine: 94 points
March 6, 2023 - Lots of black fruits, earth & truffles with violets, cigar box, smoke & peat.
Palate- dark fruits, earth, violets, tobacco with smoke, peat, bigger tannins & medium acidity in a full body. A great bottle but a tad tight. Hold for a few years.2 people found this helpful Comment -
bethel31 wrote: 89 points
January 23, 2023 - Despite opening to breathe in bott for 4 hrs and thereafter, decant for an hour in restaurant, the wine appear to be closed with astringency. Not sure why and it’s quite different from the notes of others. Perhaps it’s not ready or maybe open to air for too long. Will wait for a few years before opening next bott
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JJYoyo Likes this wine: 94 points
November 24, 2022 - Out of magnum. 2 hr decant and at least double that time right now is a good idea. It is a blockbuster claret that tastes to me like a Cab Sauv with a little Cab Franc - not like the Merlot dominated blend it is. Tons of blueberry/cherry, a little tobacco, fairly light toasted oak, a little graphite. Terrific but still formidable tannic structure that supports enough fruit to keep this going for easily another decade. I don’t think this is even really at its peak yet. Right now the astringency makes this a little tough to enjoy fully but it does command attention and is an excellent 2012.
Score 94+ ; could be even better in a few years.
Relative to expectations: at least a +, maybe a second in time.1 person found this helpful Comment
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By Chris Kissack
April 2022, 4/1/2022 (link)(Château La Mission Haut-Brion Pessac-Léognan Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Sebastian Payne MW
Bordeaux 2012: ten years on tasting, 3/3/2022 (link)(Château La Mission Haut-Brion, Pessac-Léognan, Bordeaux, France, Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Jancis Robinson, MW
3/3/2022 (link)(Ch La Mission Haut-Brion Pessac-Léognan Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Chris Kissack
March 2022, 3/1/2022 (link)(Château La Mission Haut-Brion Pessac-Léognan Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Jancis Robinson, MW
2/10/2022 (link)(Ch La Mission Haut-Brion Pessac-Léognan Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Jeb Dunnuck
Up From The Cellar #7 & Misc New Releases, 11/14/2019 (link)(La Mission Haut-Brion) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Jeb Dunnuck
Up From The Cellar #5 & Misc New Releases, 3/27/2019 (link)(La Mission Haut-Brion Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Chris Kissack
November 2016, 11/1/2016 (link)(Château La Mission Haut-Brion Pessac-Léognan Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Jancis Robinson, MW
1/20/2016 (link)(Ch La Mission Haut-Brion Pessac-Léognan Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Antonio Galloni
2012 Bordeaux: Messages in a Bottle (Jan 2016), 1/1/2016 (link)(La Mission Haut-brion La Mission Haut-brion) Subscribe to see review text.
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By John Gilman
Jan/Feb 2015, Issue #55, Château La Mission Haut-Brion One of the Graves’ Greatest Estates- Changing For the Better?(Château La Mission Haut-Brion) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Steven Spurrier
Bordeaux 2012 results: Graves & Pessac-Léognan (reds), 4/19/2013 (link)(Château La Mission Haut-Brion, Pessac-Léognan, Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Jancis Robinson, MW
4/10/2013 (link)(Ch La Mission Haut-Brion Pessac-Léognan Red) Subscribe to see review text.
Vinous
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By Ian D'Agata
April 2013, IWC Issue #168 (link)(Chateau La Mission Haut Brion Pessac Leognan) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Chris Kissack
April 2013, 4/1/2013 (link)(Château La Mission Haut-Brion Pessac-Léognan Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By John Gilman
Mar/Apr 2013, Issue #44, The 2012 Bordeaux Vintage: A Very Inconsistent, But Classically-Proportioned Year(Château La Mission Haut-Brion) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Neal Martin
A Century of Bordeaux: The Twos (Sep 2022) (link)(La Mission Haut-Brion La Mission Haut-Brion Red) Subscribe to see review text.
Wine Definition
- Vintage 2012
- 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 Code 0649944020868
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 207 (7%)
- In Cellars 2,146 (74%)
- Consumed 528 (18%)
Food Pairing
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Who Likes This Wine
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- VarietyRed Bordeaux Blend
- CountryFrance
- RegionBordeaux
- SubRegionGraves
- AppellationPessac-Léognan
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