Mission Haut Brion - Pessac-Léognan 2019

Wine Advocate

98-100 / 100

par Lisa Perrotti-Brown le 15/07/2020

The 2019 La Mission Haut-Brion is composed of 53% Merlot, 39.5% Cabernet Sauvignon and 7.5% Cabernet Franc, harvested from the 11th of September to the 2nd of October. The estimated label alcohol degree is 14.5%. Very deep purple-black in color, it slowly unfurls in the glass to reveal a beguiling perfume of violets, Black Forest cake, wild blueberries and kirsch with nuances of star anise, cast-iron pan, pencil lead and crushed rocks plus a waft of wild sage. The full-bodied palate is densely laden with layers of black fruit, earth and floral-laced flavors, framed by exquisitely ripe, finely grained tannins and compelling freshness, finishing with great length and loads of mineral sparks. A wine of impeccable breeding, both decadently flamboyant and provocatively graceful, this is already a prodigious wine of indisputable beauty.

WeinWisser

20 / 20

le 07/07/2020

Bettane & Desseauve

97-98 / 100

par Bettane & Desseauve le 03/07/2020

18,5-19

Vinous

95-97 / 100

par Antonio Galloni le 18/06/2020

The 2019 La Mission Haut-Brion is a powerful, brooding wine done in a grand scale. Scorched earth, tar, licorice, gravel and dried flowers infuse the 2019 with striking depth and dimension. A wine of somber, brooding beauty, the 2019 is going to need the better part of a decade to start unwinding. Readers will find a La Mission of virile power and breadth.

Vinous

98-100 / 100

par Neal Martin le 16/06/2020

The 2019 La Mission Haut-Brion was picked from 11 September until 2 October at 52hl/ha. It is deep purple in colour. It has a very intense, what you might call quite "serious" bouquet with blackberry, wild hedgerow, crushed iris petals and a light estuarine influence. It shows exquisite delineation and focus. The palate is stunning with intense black fruit laced with crushed stone, sea salt, black pepper and cedar, almost Pauillac in style. This La Mission is so pixelated with stupendous intensity. After four hours it closes up and appears cowed by the presence of the expressive Haut-Brion. Yet after 8 hours it is unquestionably showing greater structure and depth than the First Growth and, as such, despite its mercurial nature, I wager that ultimately this will become one of the wines of the vintage. Breathtaking.

Jamessuckling.com

99-100 / 100

par James Suckling le 11/06/2020

A tight and structured La Mission that takes you deep into the glass with super intensity and power. The tannins are omnipresent and envelop the palate. It’s full-bodied yet agile and complete. Iodine, sweet-tobacco and blackberry character. It seems never to finish. Another WOW wine that reminds me of some of the great classics of this estate, such as the 1955.

The World of Fine Wines

94-96 /

par Michael Schuster le 13/05/2020

Fine and lightly, subtly minerally on the nose; full-bodied, nicely concentrated, fresh in acidity, firmly tannic; very sweet, pure, and transparent in texture, warm, complex, refined
and long to taste, all within a slightly alcoholhardened firm tannin, and with a lovely  fruitfragrant persistence. Fine wine, but the marked gravel-aroma element, so much part of its core character for so long, is gone. Will it be there with age? Who knows. They say that terroir always “comes through” ... We can hope. Fine wine, no question, which will give plenty of pleasure … but it is necessarily a very changed expression of the terroir, because the climate element of the terroir has changed so much.