1998 Château La Mission Haut-Brion

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  4/14/2024 - hargy Likes this wine: 93 Points

  this is drinking quite beautifully now even though the nose remains a little reticent - quite a subtle wine and all the more lovely for it - will be sensational in ten years

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  4/2/2024 - Jeff Leve wrote: 98 Points

  If you are a fan of La Mission Haut Brion, with some extra money burning a hole in your pocket, this is the wine to buy. It has all the power, layers of perfectly ripe, earthy, smoky, leafy, tobacco covered fruits, balanced, poised and graceful, with the ability to age and evolve for decades. Drink from 2024-2050.

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  2/9/2024 - d.f.c Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Drank this in a blind drinking party, it was the last one after 99 Latour, 98 Haut Brion, 99 Mouton, 99 Lafite and 99 Margaux. A decent wine when drinking alone. But when compared with others of similar vintage and from the same region, it was the weakest performer.

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  12/21/2023 - dream Likes this wine: 93 Points

  This particular bottle showed a bit more mature than recent tastings but it was a beautiful wine nonetheless. There are deep flavors of black fruits, charred earth and sweet tobacco with a silky texture and a lovely layered, supple finish.

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  12/14/2023 - ankitmehra Likes this wine: 98 Points

  I made a note on another birth year wine - the 1998 Domaine de Chevalier - that talks about how, when it comes to my birth vintage, my preference for left bank Bordeaux shifts south towards Margaux and Pessac-Léognan. I’ve never had a wine prove a point more than the 1998 Château La Mission Haut-Brion. This wine is truly ethereal. It’s everything we love about Graves and more. The nose was alluring, leveling out the quintessentially Graves smokiness with a good amount of leather, black cherries, blackcurrant and a hint of licorice. The palate, though, was enthralling. A journey that has spices and herbaceousness across each phase, the upfront brought us in with its rich blackcurrant and tart red cherry medley prior to cedar wood and a hint of minerality coming in during the mid-palate and finish. The wine was both silky and mouth coating, amplified by the bottle’s amazing acidity and intensity. I have zero doubts in the longevity of this wine. 30 years, 40 years - you name it. This was singing. WOTN.

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