2025 La Mission Haut Brion Rouge

Auslieferung bis zum Herbst 2028!
Delivery until Fall 2028!

(Pessac-Léognan; 58.3% Merlot; 38.3% Cabernet Sauvignon; 3.4% Cabernet Franc; a final yield of 26 hl/ha; 13.5% alcohol; tasted at La Mission Haut-Brion). This is darker fruited than Haut-Brion with the additional Cabernet bringing extra depth, a coolness to the mid palate and a calm, tranquil, cool and fresh almost plungepool clarity to the wine. I love the gentle hint of cedar and the more obvious graphite notes. I love too the florality - here violet and lily of the valley; there's a little trace of incense too and the plume of smoke from the recently snuffed candle. Gracious in its dark fruit profile - mulberry, sloe, damson and black berry, with a little black cherry stone. Ample at first, very spherical in form in the mouth and incredibly dense and compact at the cool core. There's staggering concentration here but so much charm and even accessibility for such a great vintage with so much long-term potential. Long, gently tapering and almost eternal on the finish. Overall, I find this a little more vibrant and vivid, more lifted too than Haut-Brion itself.
97-99/100 Colin Hay

Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2025 La Tour Carnet rolls out of the glass with notes of juicy raspberries, fresh strawberries, and blackberries, followed by hints of violets, dark chocolate, and mint tea. The medium-bodied palate is soft and racy with bright red berry flavors and a minty kick to the finish. The blend is 69% Merlot, 28% Cabernet Sauvignon, 2% Petit Verdot, and 1% Cabernet Franc. The alcohol is 13.5%.
97-99/100 Lisa Perrotti-Brown

Signature finesse coupled with clear intensity and concentration, muscular with a juicy frame and crushed red rose petals on the finish. Huge ageing potential, this stretches out through the palate and delivers finesse and hidden power. 69% 1st wine. 27hl/ha yield. Harvest August 27 to September 19. 59% new oak. 3.73ph
96/100 Jane Anson

A gentle sweetness of bayberry and mulberry softly opens the tasting journey. Then comes a violet of quiet depth, drifting past almost unnoticed, before a trace of sandalwood rises softly from the shadows. Château La Mission Haut-Brion 2025 stretches across a wide aromatic spectrum, yet every transition feels seamless, as if wandering through a vast landscape scroll. On entry, the texture is smooth and supple, with a cocoa-like warmth wrapping around black cherry and blackberry in a slow, continuous flow across the palate. You can clearly feel both the richness of its substance and the scale of its energy. Rather than being simply layered, they are meticulously fitted together, like a mortise-and-tenon structure (????), seamless and perfectly unified, with aging potential that appears boundless.
97-99/100 Alexandre Ma