1947 Château La Mission Haut-Brion

Community Tasting Notes (8) Median Score: 95 points

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  11/24/2021 - Cailles wrote: 95 Points

  Legends only: 15 Bordeaux & 2 Heitz MV Magnums: Mouton vs Mission 1947. Both from magnums and double decanted 4 hours prior to consumption. Two very strong wines and a close race with the Mouton (rated 97 pts) slightly edging out the Mission (95 pts). Both wines were a bit shy on the nose and showed much stronger on the palate. Quite different int style, the Mission was quintessential Pessac with the typical mix of fresh fruits, loads of tobacco and minerality, while the Mouton showed like a quintessential Mouton full of burnt sugar and coffee notes with that extra touch of seductiveness and sweetness. Both wines have had an equally good structural frame and a lot of life left in the tank, especially from magnum.
  
  TN: Medium expressive nose, with smoke, dark fruit, tobacco and minerality. With time more intense and smokey and with lots of black tea notes. Not expressive and precise enough to fully convince. A whole other story on the palate where the wine sings from the attack till the long finish. Very good sweetness with fresh dark and dark red berries, some blue fruit too, lots of minerality and tobacco. Some herbs too, some malty notes. Quite complete wine although not as complex as many other wines in this tasting. The structure is impeccable with a wall of fine and slightly velvety tannins, superb freshness, nicely creamy structure. Good weight, good balance and harmony.

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  5/12/2020 - La Flama Blanca Likes this wine: 97 Points

  This bottle was 🔥🔥🔥 showcasing that rich and opulent, mature Bordeaux flavor of sweet cassis and charred earth on the long and harmonious finish. Insanely expressive bouquet of smoky gravel, grilled meat and roasted espresso.
  
  This was the consensus Wine of the Lunch and for good reason. You don’t mess with aged LMHB!

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  12/9/2019 - La Flama Blanca wrote: flawed

  Oh the spoils! Unfortunately a bit dull and monolithic...off bottle marred by VA. Could tell there was a beautiful wine underneath, but never came around. Look at that color in the glass though...FML
  
  I’ve read that correct bottles are silky sweet, almost Port-like in structure. Robert Parker called it the closest thing to a Late Harvest LMHB...sounds DELISH!

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  9/27/2019 - BradE wrote:

  Three Old Bordeaux and Some Starters (Bellecour. Wayzata, MN): A bottle in perfect shape from the first Steve Verlin auction at HDH. Decanted for sediment and first sips were terrific. Silky and somewhat sweet initially, that morphed into a brown sugary and even sweeter palate as it opened over the three hour dinner. Extremely pleasurable and all in all a fantastic bottle.

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  8/16/2019 - Jeff Leve wrote: 80 Points

  Not a wine I thought I would ever see, this bottle was marred by more VA than I could handle. The fruit was ripe, there was volume, but the volatile acidity was over the top.

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