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Chateau La Mission Haut-Brion2014

RED WINE

PUBLIC
April 2025
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Chateau La Mission Haut-Brion label
  • Producer Chateau la Mission Haut-Brion
  • Country France
  • Region Bordeaux
  • Appellation Pessac-Leognan
  • UPC 0 15643 47073 8

Reviews

James Suckling 96

The typicity of La Mission is really here. Aromas of iodine, oyster shell, currants and orange peel are evident. Full-bodied, tight and tannic with a muscular and toned texture that holds the wine down at the moment, but it’s waiting to release its joy and true nature. Fine-grained.

by JS, James Suckling , 2017

Wine Spectator 94

Fleshy and very compact, with layers of dark fig, black currant paste and blackberry reduction still sorting themselves out. Sports a serious spine of tar while a well-roasted apple wood element forms the backdrop on the dense finish. The range and density set this apart. Should be rather long-lived for the vintage.

by JM, Wine Spectator , 2017

Wine Advocate 95

The 2014 La Mission Haut Brion is a blend of 54% Merlot, 1% Cabernet Franc and 45% Cabernet Sauvignon, picked between 15 September and 8 October and raised in 55% new oak. It has retained that engagingly fresh and vibrant bouquet, the bashful nature that it showed in barrel replaced by a more outgoing personality. This is an exquisite bouquet with pure black fruit, cold stone, a touch of black olive and later a suggestion of boysenberry preserve. The palate is still structured and considering that a majority is Merlot, quite masculine. There remains some new oak to be fully assimilated, although there is clearly the fruit to soak that up. It comes more alive on the second half with a lovely spiciness and impressive persistence. It will have more to give down the line and the strictness implies that this La Mission Haut Brion should be afforded a decade in the cellar before it will show what it can do.

by NM, Wine Advocate , 2017

Technical Details

Tasting notes

Chateau Haut-brion's tasting notes
The concentrated, expressive nose features very ripe black fruit aromas as well as roasted nuances. The wine is fresh and powerful on the palate from the onset, going on to show roundness, finesse, and complex fruit. This charming and unique wine signs off with a flourish while treating the palate to a long and enduring aromatic finish.
54% Merlot, 1% Cabernet Franc, 45% Cabernet Sauvignon.
Date of the harvest: 15 sept. – 8 oct.
To drink ideally around: 2024 -2044

Vintage

2014 was marked by an extraordinary Indian summer that saved the vintage. Fine spring weather was conducive to a good start to the growing season. However, challenging summer conditions seriously slowed down ripening. Fortunately, the month of September was absolutely beautiful, with dry, extremely sunny weather accompanied by highs of close to 30 Celsius. This superb weather, with cool night-time temperatures, enabled the grapes to ripen beautifully, and they were able to be brought into the vat house having reached a perfect level of ripeness.

Weather

Rainfall: 373 mm
Total production Gironde: 5,27 million hl
Number of days over 30 Celsius/86 Farenheit: 10