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| Community Tasting Notes (average 95.7 pts. and median of 96 pts. in 295 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by NoTrollingerPlease on 4/27/2024: Mystery wine evening (@Private location): *** only for my memory, no detailed note or rating ***
Glass: Spiegelau Definition Bordeaux
Tasted double blind. Very fresh and fine beautiful nose. Silky texture, wonderful fruit. Elegance an balance, very long. Great! (294 views) | | | Tasted by AhSoNice1990 on 3/8/2024 & rated 90 points: Beautiful. Group of 5 and bottle was polished clean in all of about 20 minutes. Decanted for sediment. Captivating dark ruby coloured. Hints of decline but very drinkable and easily another decade in it. It’s 10am the morning after and I can still feel the finish. (683 views) | | | Tasted by rnyrny79 on 2/2/2024 & rated 95 points: Decanted 3.5 hours which was needed to smoothen the wine…really good and charming bottle that offers smoke, touch of mint, Blackcurrent, elegant Black berries, gravel, cigar ash and sweet Tobacco…both in bouquet and palate…Do I like it…YES! But compared to HB90 it does not offer the same aristocratic firework of notes and coherence. But still really good (881 views) | | | Tasted by Kemo Sabe on 1/26/2024 flawed bottle: An absolute bummer as there was heat damage along the way. I know what this bottle should be and it wasnt that. Drinkable but a let down. (841 views) | | | Tasted by nywine68 on 1/14/2024 & rated 95 points: Brought to dinner at Crown Shy. Cork in great condition, just a short decant. Initially very soft and plush but started to pick up more body and structure with time. Fully mature with beautiful blackberry jam flavors and signature smoke and cigarbox. This is a perennial favorite of mine and I've had multiple bottles over the past 5-10 years. I think it is now starting to crest and needs to be consumed over the next 5 years, although it will always vary bottle by bottle. (1024 views) | | | Tasted by glou.sf on 1/10/2024 & rated 96 points: Dinner at Foliage (San Francisco): Lovely nose with super classic Bordeaux profile of tobacco, forest, cedar, cassis, underwood, and some floral notes. The palate is very elegant with similar notes plus dark cherries and some smokiness towards the long finish. Amazing wine that's very balanced, complex, and elegant. I don't think it will improve from here, but will certainly hold for a long time. (1178 views) | | | Tasted by aagrawal on 1/10/2024 & rated 93 points: Dinner with Herwig (Foliage, SF): High intensity aromatics, mature fruit, graphite; palate is full bodied, showing a touch of alcohol but otherwise well balanced, tons of bell pepper, some black pepper; long finish. Very nice finish, really nice aromatics, and this will continue to age really well. 93-94 (1166 views) | | | Tasted by sdr on 12/23/2023 & rated 94 points: A softer and more elegant version of La Mission Haut-Brion, the 1990 is a sheer delight. Marvelous texture, lingering. Gently smoky and dark fruity. At peak. (711 views) | | | Tasted by johnh1001 on 12/10/2023 & rated 94 points: Needed 3 hours. Smooth. Round. Harmonious dark fruit, asphalt. Some sweetness came out. Lovely now. (954 views) | | | Tasted by Dionysos55 on 10/21/2023 & rated 98 points: Wow !!! Un grand moment de dégustation avec cette bouteille absolument magique....Robe encore relativement jeune.Bouquet sensationnel de complexité et d'intensité: fruits noirs (cassis,myrtille),cèdre,un vrai côté fumé avec de l'olive noire,bois de santal...C'est réellement enivrant on ne s'en lasse pas....La bouche offre une longue caresse langoureuse qui est interminable,et tout cela avec des arômes différents ici c'est le tabac et la réglisse qui dominent le palais.Carrément envoûtant longueur magnifique....Et tous les dégustateurs renommés affirment que le 89 est largement supérieur faut pas demander....Un très,très grand moment où l'on savoure pleinement un nectar tel que celui là !!!!!! (1019 views) | | | Tasted by kr522 on 9/22/2023 & rated 98 points: Had this along with a 90 Cheval Blanc, and 99 La Mouline, as we had special friends over for dinner…..needless to say they were all great in their own way. We drank this last, and perhaps the comparison reminded me how singular LMHB can be, exuding all kinds of cigar and gravel notes perfectly intertwined with the raspberry and dark cherry flavors. Fantastic (1448 views) | | | Tasted by Mansavage on 9/21/2023 & rated 96 points: Drinking Beautifully. 8/28/2023 (1196 views) | | | Tasted by MQuentel@web.de on 7/17/2023 & rated 97 points: The high expectations completely fulfilled. Dream bottle. Aromatic on the dark, fine spicy side, dark fruit, leather, very best cigars. Superbly structured, best acidity and fine-grained tannins, with great inner power on the palate. Aged superbly, now has wonderful balance and aromatically is an archetype of a fine Grave wine. Bottles in this condition can play at least at the same level for another 10-15 years. (1582 views) | | | Tasted by SimonG on 6/17/2023 & rated 95 points: A celebration with friends (Home): Similarly full mid garnet as the HB alongside, and equally rich, open and giving from the off. Decanted 3hrs and kept cool. A lovely pairing with the HB, very similar in character, the LMHB showing a touch more richness, the HB a little more aristocratic elegance. Long, rich and inviting. Neck and neck with the HB, and a step up from a very good but ultimately less exciting bottle of the 89 in January. Blackcurrant, tobacco, just quintessential Graves. ***** (1636 views) | | | Tasted by dream on 6/1/2023 & rated 96 points: Certainly 1990 has a strong signature of plush ripeness and layered power and that is definitely the case here. This wine is voluminous in the mouth with a velvet texture sent from the gods. Yet terroir-specific flavors are there with great smoky black fruit and sweet tobacco flowing over the tongue. The finish is like cashmere with great notes of dark spices and campfire embers. Wow! (1344 views) | | | Tasted by dream on 5/16/2023 & rated 94 points: Smooth and layered with smoky dark fruits and real depth and subtle power. I usually prefer this to the '90 Haut Brion drunk alongside but not on this night. At Commanderie Candidate's dinner at the University Club, NYC. (1270 views) | | | Tasted by canan on 4/29/2023 & rated 97 points: KYD #2.3 (Møntnergade): Plenty of black currant fruit combined with a lovely complexity. Forest floor, mushrooms, tobacco and lovely perfume of black currant leaves.
Absolutely loved it! 97-98p. (957 views) | | | Tasted by Francophile1 on 4/5/2023: Spring Break Mini-Mondo Tasting (Deerfield Beach, FL): Flight #2 - single blind tasted next to the '90 Haut Brion. The '90 La Mission was hands down WOTN. This was the fourth time I've had this vintage of La Mission and this ranks up there as one of the best bottles I've of the four bottles. Near perfection. A wine made for kings, queens, & nobility. This has the stuffing that some of the best Bordeaux contain in the 1990 vintage. So great! (1508 views) | | | Tasted by dream on 3/9/2023 & rated 96 points: A great bottles of this that has reached maturity with a superb depth of faded dark fruits and tons of tertiary flavors and aromas. The texture is layered, silky and fine and this is now all about the fabulous expression of "tobacco road" on the long and incredibly complex finish. Hard to even explain how unique and delicious this wine is and it bested the '90 Haut Brion tonight in my opinion. Peaking but plenty of life ahead. 96+ (1476 views) | | | Tasted by Le Monty on 1/10/2023: Drank NYE. I have always loved this wine and this bottle was no exception. Dark cherry, bacon, iron, tar, smoke and long finish. In a great spot. (1679 views) | | | Tasted by Rani on 12/11/2022 & rated 96 points: Singing from the moment it was opened. Notes of bacon, blackberry, tobacco. Lush and full yet with a backbone of fine tannins. Very lingering and balanced. (1804 views) | | | Tasted by Comte Flaneur on 10/20/2022 & rated 96 points: More flattering and hedonistic than the 1989, the 1990 La Mission has a gorgeous scorched earth entry into a lux palate; the most sybaritic La Mission but I would not list decadence and hedonism as La Mission’s most endearing traits. (1887 views) | | | Tasted by Charlie Carnes on 8/14/2022: Opened the second after the first was a bad bottle. It was true to form, terrific, Auction bottles… (2404 views) | | | Tasted by Rani on 7/20/2022 & rated 95 points: 54th Birthday dinner; 7/19/2022-7/21/2022 (Tschernihovsky 6 restaurant): Drunk next to its sibling, the 1990 Haut Brion, and this time outclassed by it. Expressive nose of blackberry, bacon fat, violets. On the palate quite powerful, even edgy, with finer but pronounced tannins. Could have used longer decanting as it improved in the glass, and yet never reached the finesse and balance of the HB. Still, in its own right an excellent wine. Still some years ahead of it. (2515 views) | | | Tasted by Charlie Carnes on 7/13/2022 & rated 96 points: Jeez, I think this wine is getting younger! It is everything I expect, just needs a long decant! Its dark, dark cherry, with black soil, iron, and stones, and myriad baking spices. It seemed to grow in the glass. Great wine to be sure! (1870 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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Vinous, Mission Complete: La Mission Haut-Brion 1928–2011 (Sep 2021) (9/1/2021)
(La Mission Haut-Brion La Mission Haut-Brion Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By John Gilman
View From the Cellar, Mar/Apr 2019, Issue #80, Another Look At the 1989 and 1990 Bordeaux - Twin Vintages Have Taken Different Paths With Age
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View From the Cellar, 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 (served from magnum)) Login and sign up and see review text. | By Jancis Robinson, MW
JancisRobinson.com (11/13/2013)
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View From the Cellar, Jul/Aug 2012, Issue #40, The Annual Champagne and Sparkling Wine Report
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JancisRobinson.com (3/15/2010)
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Vintage Tastings, Hong Kong Killers (2/5/2010)
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Vintage Tastings, Hong Kong Killers November (2/5/2010)
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JancisRobinson.com (6/23/2008)
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Vintage Tastings, A Mega 1990 Bordeaux Tasting with Clive (3/21/2005)
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JancisRobinson.com (3/23/2003)
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Vinous, The 1990 Clarets...To Have and To Hold (Nov 1993) (11/1/1993)
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Château La Mission-Haut-Brion is the greatest Graves wine after Haut-Brion and in some vintages is considered the superior wine of the two. La Mission-Haut-Brion is situated just across the road from Haut-Brion in the commune of Talence in the southern suburbs of Bordeaux. Since 1983, both properties have been under the same ownership, Domaine Clarence Dillon S.A. La Mission-Haut-Brion's vineyards (Cabernet Sauvignon 48%, Merlot 45%, Cabernet Franc 7%) lie on a large (up to 18 metres deep in places) gravel bank interspersed with clay. The wine is fermented in temperature-controlled, stainless steel vats and then matured in oak barriques (100% new) for 18 months. The wines of La Mission Haut Brion are rich, oaky and powerful and need at least 10 years of bottle ageing before they should be broached.
Jancis Robinson on La Mission Haut Brion.Red Bordeaux BlendRed Bordeaux is generally made from a blend of grapes. Permitted grapes are Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Malbec and rarely Carménère.Today Carménère is rarely used, with Château Clerc Milon, a fifth growth Bordeaux, being one of the few to still retain Carménère vines. As of July 2019, Bordeaux wineries authorized the use of four new red grapes to combat temperature increases in Bordeaux. These newly approved grapes are Marselan, Touriga Nacional, Castets, and Arinarnoa.
Wineries all over the world aspire to making wines in a Bordeaux style. In 1988, a group of American vintners formed The Meritage Association to identify wines made in this way. Although most Meritage wines come from California, there are members of the Meritage Association in 18 states and five other countries, including Argentina, Australia, Canada, Israel, and Mexico.France Vins de France (Office National Interprofessionnel des Vins ) | Pages Vins, Directory of French Winegrowers | French Wine (Wikipedia)
Wine Scholar Guild vintage ratings
2018 vintage: "marked by a wet spring, a superb summer and a good harvest"
2019 vintage reports
2021: "From a general standpoint, whether for white, rosé or red wines, 2021 is a year marked by quality in the Rhône Valley Vineyards. Structured, elegant, fresh and fruity will be the main keywords for this new vintage."
2022 harvest: idealwine.info | wine-searcher.comBordeaux Bordeaux Wine Guide
Vins Bordeaux (Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux)
History of Bordeaux
History of 1855 Bordeaux Classification
"2009 is all about ripeness, with wines impressively packed with ripe fruit and high alcohol levels. They are showy, in-your-face, and full of pleasure. The 2010s have the fruit and alcohol levels of the 2009s, but with a compelling freshness on the finish that balances the fruit and provides a perfect sense of structure." - Ben Nelson
"2016 is a landmark vintage in certain spots of Bordeaux and it should be remembered as one of the most inspired campaigns of the last 40-50+ years." -Jon Rimmerman
"The quality of red Bordeaux in 2016 was universally lauded – although the response to the en primeur campaign was muted. Quantity was high too, with the equivalent of 770 million bottles of wine produced. An exceptionally dry summer with cool nights eventually, thanks to mid September rain, resulted in small, thick-skinned, ripe grapes, and the wines are marked by high tannin and acidity, with superb aromatic fragrance." - Jancis Robinson
"2017 was complicated, but there are some excellent wines. Expect plenty of freshness and drinkability from wines that will offer excellent value, and others that will rival 2016 in terms of ripeness and ageability. But they are likely to be the exception not the rule, making careful selection key." - Jane Anson
"In the past, a vintage such as 2022 may have been overripe, raisined and low in acidity but 2022 had a sneaky little reservoir in its back pocket - a near perfect marriage of cool/cold/rain the previous winter and the previous vintage that literally soaked the soils (a key to why 2022 is not 2003...or 1893)." - Jon RimmermanGraves Vins de Graves (Conseil des Vins de Graves) - Read more about Pessac Leogan Graves and its winesPessac-Léognan Pessac-Leognan reds:
Grape Varieties: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot
Soil: Predominantly gravel and sandy rock, with varying proportions of clay and sandstone
Surface Area: 1,491 ha
Pessac-Leognan whites:
Grape Varieties: Sauvignon Blanc, Sémillon
Soil: Gravel and rocks covered with sand, sandstone, and clay
Surface Area: 275 ha |
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