Chateau La Mission Haut Brion Blanc 2020

One of Bordeaux's most celebrated dry white wines, Château La Mission Haut-Brion Blanc offers extraordinary aromas of grapefruit, lemon zest, white peach, acacia blossom, toasted hazelnut, flint, and subtle oak. Richly textured yet impeccably fresh, it delivers remarkable precision, complexity, and exceptional aging potential.

Food Pairing: Pair with lobster, grilled turbot, scallops, roast chicken, creamy seafood pasta, truffle risotto, or aged goat cheese.

100 Points - James Suckling

This is crazy quality. The depth and intensity is really something. It is so compact and powerful with such intensity and density. Energy. So structured. Full-bodied. Layered and superb. Like a great Montrachet from a great vintage, but so Haut Brion. Speechless. Perfect wine.

98 Points - Jeb Dunnuck

Much more Semillon-based compared to its stablemate, the Haut-Brion Blanc, the 2019 Château La Mission Haut-Brion Blanc is 70% Semillon and 30% Sauvignon Blanc. It's a much more subdued, classic Semillon, offering ripe peach, honeyed lime, sappy herbs and chalky mineral nuances that show even more on the palate. Rich, layered and medium to full-bodied, it's another blockbuster of a white from this estate that has everything you could want from a Bordeaux Blanc. It opens up beautifully with time in the glass, is flawlessly balanced and just a thrill a second. It should evolve for 20–30 years as well. Best after 2022.

96 Points - Decanter

A wonderful La Mission with a creamy feel through the core of the wine, and a saline tang on the finish that gives form and shape to the white pear and ripe nectarine fruits. Great grip, expansion and rise, hard to argue with the confident and mouthwatering delivery of this white.

94 Points - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

The 2019 Haut-Brion Blanc is richer and rounder than its stablemate across the street, bursting with aromas of peaches, citrus zest, ripe orchard fruit, pastry cream and white flowers. Full-bodied, broad and textural, it's ample and enveloping, with a demonstrative core of fruit, lively acids and a long, saline finish. Best after 2021.

94 Points - Wine Spectator

Extroverted, with an energetic display of white peach, Key lime, verbena, oyster shell and quinine notes that are well-defined as they extend through a lengthy finish. Features real tension and drive too, which most whites in this vintage lack. Sauvignon Blanc and Sémillon.