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La Mission vertical - the tasting notes
Last week about 30 of us from six countries were lucky enough to take part in the biggest vertical of La Mission Haut-Brion the current owners have ever held. (See videos of David Peppercorn and Michael Broadbent reminiscing over lunch at this event, and a more recent video of the tasting itself.)
Below are tasting notes on the 55 vintages of Ch La Mission Haut-Brion and its extraordinary dry white stablemate Ch Laville Haut-Brion tasted in London last week at an event described in free for all tomorrow. The wines were put into flights of vintages of similar quality and/or style by estate manager Jean-Philippe...
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