La Mission Haut Brion (3.0L)
From Pessac-Leognan
| Vintage: | 2000 |
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| Description: | 100 Rp / 100 Wci / 98 Ja / 97 De / 97 Vm / 19.5 Jr. One of the wines of the vintage, the 2000 has barely budged in its evolution since it was bottled and released in 2002. After ten years in bottle, it still reveals a dense opaque purple color along with a potentially sensational bouquet of blueberries, black currants, graphite, asphalt and background oak. Extremely powerful, full-bodied and superbly concentrated with good acidity and high but round tannins, this massive La Mission-Haut-Brion should take its place among this estate's most hallowed vintages when it hits full maturity in another one to two decades. I was surprised by just how youthful this wine tasted at age 12. If tasted blind, I would have guessed it to be around 4 to 5 years old. Anticipated maturity: 2020-2050. Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate. This is a wow wine! From start to finish, everything here is just off the chart. Starting with its still, deep, dark hue, the wine offers a dark fruited, blackberry and black currant liqueur nose, with accents of cigar box, cedar, and smoke. On the palate, the wine coats your palate with its waves of dark black fruits. There is purity, symmetry, length, and harmony that you can sense. There is also weight and depth, with a seamless finish that keeps on going. Drink from 2025-2060.-Jeff Leve, Wine Cellar Insider, tasted 11/22. The colour here is deep and dense – just beginning to soften towards brick red - without a huge colour change from the rim to the centre. The fruit character is rich and plummy, with autumnal damson and blackberry notes alongside supple tannins. There is clear aromatic intensity, and floral edges, that become more intense over time – a great indicator of something special going on. Dark fruit flavours and cigar leaf nuances complete what is a delicious wine, at the perfect moment to launch into the next phase of its life. - Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Compared to the 1990, this is clearly a much more 'modern' wine with deep, youthful colour, dark cassis, kirsch and black olive notes on the palate. Powerfully built with firm tannins suggesting this still has a long way to go. Earthy, meaty characters, and a dryness to the tannins confirming the lack of rainfall during the growing season. Likely to flesh out and add richness over the next 15+ years. After a mild winter, spring was very hot and warm, before the onset of extremely dry conditions lasting into September. A very fine, long-living La Mission.-Andy Howard Mw, Decanter |
| Price: | $ 3995.00 |
| Price in original currency: | None |
Available from Grand Vin Wine Merchants
| Address: |
1003 4th Avenue East Olympia, WA 98506 United States |
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| Telephone (regular): | 360-350-4896 |
First added to 1000 Corks on November 8, 2016.
