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La Mission vertical - the tasting notes
23 May 2008 by JR
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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