1978 Château La Mission Haut-Brion

Community Tasting Notes (93) Avg Score: 93.8 points

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  1/12/2024 - Melli Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Suffered in comparison to the 1982 but still enjoyable. Needed some time in glass to open up.

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  12/9/2023 - oxwombat Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Opened at Octavium in HK. Slow-oxed and served blind.
  
  This completely blindsided me, as I guessed Left Bank Bordeaux from the late 80s or early 90s. Still fresh, with decent (if admittedly fading) fruit and still some tannins to back it up. Wow, what a wonderful condition for this bottle! Just shows that if provenance and storage are right, then wines really can last a long time.

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  8/26/2023 - djhammond Likes this wine: 100 Points

  Second time of tasting, but from a different source, my previous reservations about the finish dissipated. With the right bottle this is up there with the 1955 and 1982. Beef blood and smoked sausage dominate the nose, and it is a tertiary beast on the palate with old leather and plum, and with everything integrated and multilayered. The depth end palate and on the finish is other wordly. It's all about bottles at this age, but one of my greatest drinking experiences. This was decanted and filtered an hour before, but with a stopper to prevent oxidation. However, drink efficiently as it starts to fade after an hour.

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  6/19/2023 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 96 Points

  Château Haut-Brion and Château La Mission Haut-Brion Tasting and Dinner (Winefield's Auctioneers, Amsterdam, NL): Fabulous colour for age. Marvellous, spicy and meaty nose, deep and masculine, an essence of Mission; unusual power on the palate, great tannic structure, bolt upright, excellent length. Incredible quality for vintage and age.

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  6/19/2023 - svdheijden wrote: 97 Points

  Still standing rock solid after 35 years. Classic Bordeaux and archetypical MHB all the same. Beautifully balancing in between 2nd and 3rd stage. Tobacco, dirt road, gravel, roses (hint of Barolo), beef, blood, barbecue. Opening up inn the glass even further after one hour. Hardly any further development after I drank my first two bottles 13 years ago.

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