Community Tasting Notes 47

• dchain wrote: 80 points

  January 26, 2024 - Opened for N's birthday dinner but was beyond tertiary and sadly undrinkable. I had high hopes for this but that is a gamble with these old wines from less heralded vintages!

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• Vinnut Likes this wine: 92 points

  October 22, 2023 - Dark garnet in color with clearing at the edges. Full, forward & attractive nose of mature, ripe fruit aromas of cherries, blueberries, & cassis with classic cigar box overtones of tobacco & cedar, floral notes of violets, earthy/dusty & vegetal notes, leather, coffee, gravel, iron, herbs, spices, minerals & a hint of smoke & menthol in the background. Medium-full bodied with a good concentration of balanced & smooth textured, mature, ripe fruit flavors of cherries, blueberries & cassis with mushrooms, coffee, herbs, minerals & a hint of oak. Lingering smooth finish. Drinks quite well at present and at 44 years of age, it is at or past its peak of development & would drink up if you have any. Fill was at bottom of neck right up above the shoulder level; cork was stained 1/2 the way up but intact upon opening.

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• MC2 Wines Likes this wine:

  February 28, 2023 - Birthday Bonanza (Ai Fiori (Langham Hotel on 5th Ave)): Overshadowed by the Margaux served alongside. This is a good old Bordeaux. Cigar box and a bit more of that secondary style but drinking well.

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• RockinCabs wrote: 94 points

  April 18, 2022 - This is a wine that captures the essence of La Mission Haut Brion wonderfully.
  
  Heady perfume of red berries, cherry, spicy wood smoke, brick, rosemary and olives. Very pessac in its approach and the palate is even more so. Silky and fine tannins that only age can accomplish. Clearly there was vigor when the wine was young as the entry of blackberry, cherry skin and mineral is intense, yet the subtlety unfolds as this sits in the decanter and grows longer in the mouth. Inner mouth perfume of tobacco, smoking embers and baked bricks lies beneath the slightly browning red fruit.
  
  A La Mission of elegance and class that can only be accomplished from the best terroir of Pessac. I adored this wine not for hitting the highs of a great vintage, but for its character and ability to show the nature of the property.

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• Jeff Leve wrote: 89 points

  October 18, 2021 - A lot of green going on here on the nose and palate. The perfume, with its array of tobaccos, leaves, herbs and earth is the best part of the wine, which is a bit stern and drying out in the finish. If you have this in your cellar, it is time to drink up.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1979
• 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, 802236001246

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• Pending Delivery 1 (0%)
• In Cellars 388 (71%)
• Consumed 159 (29%)

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