La Mission vertical – the tasting notes


See also this overview, La Mission celebrates 25 years.

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.

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 Delmas and maître de chai Jean-Philippe Masclef, both...