1975 Château La Mission Haut-Brion
Community Tasting Note
Jeff Leve wrote:
95 Points
Sunday, September 21, 2014 - Young, but not immature, this is what old school, classic Bordeaux is all about. The tannins are still there, but there is a wealth of fruit that fills your mouth and palate. Stylistically, it is a very beefy, masculine, tannic wine with a hard spine. It's amazing to think that at close to 40 years of age, another 5 years are going to add the wine, but if the bottle is well stored, those 5 more years will make this even better. Kind of makes you feel sorry for anyone buying this as a future.
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Comment posted by kr522:
4/4/2015 8:57:00 PM - Sounds like the translation is this wine will never reach it's potential. Wines don't magically improve after age of 40....so why pretend and inflate the score. I've had it many times and it's never shown charm despite the concentration. Same with the 82 and 00.
Comment posted by Jeff Leve:
4/5/2015 2:22:00 AM - Sorry, but this wine, and perhaps a few others can improve with 40-50 years of age. With 75 LMHB, it has most of the the right stuff. It's aromatic, concentrated and long, there is a depth of fruit, but for me, it lacks a softness in the mouth. While the wine will always have a crisp and masculine, tannic leaning, it will, or perhaps its better to say, it should become softer with time.
I taste the 2000 and 1982 LMHM moderately often and find them to be stunning wines. What is is about those wines you do not like? Do you enjoy any vintages fro LMHB?
Comment posted by kr522:
4/8/2015 5:04:00 PM - Well I hope you're right because I still own 2 more bottles, but for me the past 20+ years I'm one of those guys you feel sorry for.
Unfortunately my experience with Bordeaux is that most wines that have angular tannins when young as the 75 LMHB does (86 Mouton, 82 LLC,...) don't really lose that unflattering trait. Bad tannins outlast good fruit
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