2015 Château La Mission Haut-Brion

Community Tasting Notes (14) Avg Score: 95.1 points

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  6/19/2023 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 95 Points

  Château Haut-Brion and Château La Mission Haut-Brion Tasting and Dinner (Winefield's Auctioneers, Amsterdam, NL): Ripe and glossy fruit, monolithic and compact, great quality of fruit but otherwise not showing much, deep and masculine, spicy and deep. Score based on potential.

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  11/23/2022 - Cailles wrote: 95 Points

  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: Medium+ expressive nose, ripe dark fruit, some blue fruit. On the palate this is very inviting, very round and velvety but with lots of tension and luxurious tannins. The whole spectrum blue, black and some dark red fruit, quite ripe but not too ripe. This is lots of fun to drink with some sweet layers of sugar powder, and then coffee and toffee. Some herbs and a nice minerality backbone shining through. Very complex and highly precise But overall this is so round and easy to drink from start to the long finish. One of the starts of the tasting and compared to the 09/10 no alcohol showing.
  
  Decanting: Showed quite well from the go. Maybe no extensive decanting is needed.

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  9/25/2022 - englishman's claret wrote: 94 Points

  Though of course you'll have to wait for the oak to really integrate, the 2015 LMHB is actually showing pretty well already with a classic cherry, smoky, slightly mesquite-inflected nose. There's a lot of softly-textured fruit on the palate, but I dislike the heat which really does intrude. It could be worse - though this is 15%, it doesn't taste quite that hot (I guessed 14-14.5% ABV). It's not a bad wine, but I don't think it's realistic to identify this as performing in the top tier of LMHB and I hope that it's a sort of guard-rail to the winemaking team here.

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  6/15/2022 - Topper wrote: 94 Points

  If one is going to drink this young, it might as well be now. Could shut down more in the future. Great structure and intensity. Very intense in the mouth but mellowed over the course of dinner. Try again in ten yrs

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  11/2/2021 - Perthor01 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  I dont know - its a baby off cause....but not really as full as I expected...lets see in 6 - 8 years....

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