Chateau La Mission Haut Brion 2020

One of Bordeaux's legendary estates, Château La Mission Haut-Brion reveals profound aromas of cassis, blackberry, black cherry, graphite, cigar box, cedar, violet, and dark chocolate. Powerful yet impeccably refined, it delivers velvety tannins, extraordinary concentration, vibrant freshness, and an endlessly complex finish built for decades of aging.

Food Pairing: Pair with beef Wellington, grilled ribeye, roast lamb, venison, duck confit, truffle potatoes, aged Comté, or braised short ribs.

100 Points - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

The 2020 La Mission Haut-Brion is a brilliant effort that exhibits a level of balance and integration that are impressive in such a powerful young Bordeaux. Unwinding in the glass with aromas of dark berries and plums mingled with burning embers, pencil shavings, violets and smoked black tea, it's full-bodied, deep and concentrated, with a layered, elegantly muscular profile, its brooding core of fruit framed by a generous endowment of powdery tannin that tempers the ripeness of the vintage. Checking in at 14.7% alcohol, it's nonetheless more classically styled than the more flamboyant 2019 vintage or even the slowly maturing 2010 which I re-tasted alongside for context.

99 Points - James Suckling

Perfectly ripe black and blue berries on the nose with blackcurrants, too. Crushed fruit. Complex and perfect. Full and intense. You feel the intensity of the tannins, yet it is not overpowering. They are in a sophisticated and elegant state. Muscular and formed finish. Gorgeous in every sense of the word. Strength with finesse. Drink after 2030.