2024 La Mission Haut Brion Blanc
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The 2024 La Mission Haut-Brion Blanc offers a restrained yet elegant nose. With hints of tropical fruits, manguo and guava, there is a discreet yet highly attractive bouquet. Dry extract brings a fantastic mouth-feel, combining concentration, power and tension. It feels super dense and layered but seems reticent to open up right now. Nonetheless, this has all the marks of a Grand Vin and will simply need patience to tell its full story. Aged in 40% new oak. 13.7% alcohol and 3.25pH. Blend: 59% Semillon, 41% Sauvignon
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Yohan Castaing, Wine Advocate
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The 2024 La Mission Haut-Brion Blanc reveals a gently reductive bouquet of pear, white peach, confit citrus and verbena mingled with exotic anise touches that emerge with time in the glass. Medium to full-bodied, satiny and layered, it's bright and enveloping with an elegantly phenolic mid-palate and a mouthwateringly mordant finish. This is a blend of 59% Sémillon and 41% Sauvignon Blanc.
The 2024 La Mission Haut-Brion Blanc is powerful and very deep, despite its understated personality. Orchard fruit, lemon peel, slate, mint, white pepper and chalk all grace the palate. Clean mineral notes extend the finish effortlessly. This is an especially brisk style that is so attractive.
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.
About the producer
Ch. la Mission Haut-Brion – sister estate of Ch. Haut-Brion and part of the Clarence Dillon stable – is one of the greatest estates in all of Bordeaux. Based in Pessac-Léognan but not officially classified, it produces outstanding red and white wines.