A one well matured slightly restrained Mission where tertiaries are taking over its fruitiness and freshness. Made from a blend of 48% CS, 45% Merlot, 7% CF. Deep garnet, ruby hue. Medium+ intensity aroma filled with tertiaries, such as earth, camphor, iodine, tar, smoke, mushrooms, smoky cassis, prunes. Medium+ body, palate feels restrained but complex, still showing some cassis and dried plum fruitiness with camphor, earth, mushroomy notes taking over. Great lengthy with medium+ extra fine melting tannins.
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Pretty restrained but floral nose. Touch of green, pencil shaving, dark cherries and tobacco. The palate has a good dose of ash and smoke which is reflective of the maker. This is not an intense expression, thought it was elegant and didn’t have massive stuffing on the palate, tannins have fallen off quite abit.
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Boxing day at Caroline's: More rugged and less elegant than the stunning bottle at the start of the year. Some greenness that emerged with air. Impressive but not as mindblowing as the previous bottle.
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(Chateau La Mission Haut Brion) #2; COLOR-deep dark red; NOSE-classic earthy terroir driven; a little brett & greenness coming through; a little dark, tight plum; PALATE-really good tight black raspberry flavors coming through; really dark elegance; great length; really firm tannins on the back-end, but silky smooth throughout; proper mid-palate structure; black tea component; good balance; great elegance; not too full bodied; still drinking quite youthful as this has a good 10-20 years left in it; great second and third tier flavors; RP-90; WS-96; GV-93+
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3/8/2024 - Ernestas Likes this wine: 93 Points
A one well matured slightly restrained Mission where tertiaries are taking over its fruitiness and freshness. Made from a blend of 48% CS, 45% Merlot, 7% CF. Deep garnet, ruby hue. Medium+ intensity aroma filled with tertiaries, such as earth, camphor, iodine, tar, smoke, mushrooms, smoky cassis, prunes. Medium+ body, palate feels restrained but complex, still showing some cassis and dried plum fruitiness with camphor, earth, mushroomy notes taking over. Great lengthy with medium+ extra fine melting tannins.
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12/28/2023 - wineton.mee wrote: 93 Points
Pretty restrained but floral nose. Touch of green, pencil shaving, dark cherries and tobacco. The palate has a good dose of ash and smoke which is reflective of the maker. This is not an intense expression, thought it was elegant and didn’t have massive stuffing on the palate, tannins have fallen off quite abit.
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12/26/2023 - melvinyeowq wrote: 91 Points
Boxing day at Caroline's: More rugged and less elegant than the stunning bottle at the start of the year. Some greenness that emerged with air. Impressive but not as mindblowing as the previous bottle.
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11/4/2023 - jmoore431 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Classic Graves; leather, cigar box, “bricky” like that old guy Penning-Rowsell used to say: color wise and smell of warm bricks too. Textbook LMHB
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10/21/2023 - aquacongas wrote: 92 Points
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Nice aged left bank, I think it won't get better. Nice to drink but missing finesse and concentration. Still good acidity structure. 92-93
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