2024 La Mission Haut Brion Blanc

Auslieferung bis zum Herbst 2027!
Delivery until Fall 2027!

Beautifully gripping and fragrant aromatics, sage, white apricot and peach, this is a wonderful wine, aerian, lilts upwards through the palate, has tenacity but with the gentlest of grips, white roses, apple blossom, preserved citrus, precise and pretty yet with a slow build of complexity. Clear ageing ability, one of the wines of the vintage. 40% new oak Harvest September 2 to 10. 3.25ph, 38hl/h yield.
97/100 Jane Anson

(Pessac-Léognan; 5% Sémillon; 41% Sauvignon Blanc; pH 3.25; a final yield of 38 hl/ha; 13.75% alcohol; tasted at the property). Linden. Lime leaf. Lime zest. Elderflower and even a little elderberry. Cathedral candles and the plume of smoke from the candle snuffer. White pear. A touch of guava – a note that returns on the palate and that slight La Mission exoticism that could almost have us in the kingdom of Sauternes in terms of fruit descriptors. This is crystalline in its purity and precision, radiant and dynamic in the flow of the fruit and the sapidity of the up-flows and resulting eddies of freshness to be discovered in the mid-palate. Very beautiful and very poised, but at the same time a vin de garde that one really needs to cellar. Fresher and more energetic in than freshness and sapidity than Haut-Brion, fresher still with more zest and vim from a second bottle newly opened.
95-97/100 Colin Hay; The Drinks Business

Needs a lot of swirling to begin to reveal notes of yuzu, freshly squeezed lemons, and green mango, plus hints of lime blossoms and sea spray. The medium-bodied palate delivers a satiny texture with tightly knit citrus and floral layers, finishing long and minerally. Gorgeous.
96-98/100 Lisa Perrotti-Brown; The Wine Independent