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ANSON: "Beautifully gripping and fragrant aromatics, sage, white apricot and peach, this is a wonderful wine, aerian, lilts upwards through the palate, has tenacity but with the gentlest of grips, white roses, apple blossom, preserved citrus, precise and pretty yet with a slow build of complexity. Clear ageing ability, one of the wines of the vintage. 40% new oak Harvest September 2 to 10. 3.25ph, 38hl/h yield."
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VINUM: "Strahlend im Duft, man möchte eintauchen, Cassis, Brombeeren, dezente Röstnoten, viel Floralität, verführerisch; am Gaumen seidenweich, delikate Frucht, sensationell feine Tannine, schwerelos über die Zunge gleitend, druckvoll, dennoch federleicht, grossartige Balance, sehr gute Länge. Eine Mission im klassischen Stil, wird in jeder Phase ihres Lebens Freude bereiten."
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THE WINE ADVOCATE: "Notes of dark berries, spices, mulberries and discreet hints of new oak preface the 2024 La Mission Haut-Brion, a medium to full-bodied, dense and attractively seamless wine for the vintage, with a textural mid-palate that's underpinned by a firm chassis of tannins, concluding with a long, broad and rather ripe finish. Slightly austere at this stage, it is likely to flesh out with élevage, developing into a structured and serious La Mission with promising aging potential. Like its sibling Haut-Brion, the estate benefited from its intramural location in Pessac, which allowed for more complete ripening in a year that posed greater challenges for some other Pessac-Léognan properties."
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FALSTAFF: "Dunkles Rubingranat, violette Reflexe, zarte Randaufhellung. Zart nach Cassis und Kirschen, feine tabakige Würze, ein Hauch von Tabak und Kräuter, zarter Anklang von Nougat. Komplex, saftig, feine Brombeerfrucht, frischer Säurebogen, zarte Extraktsüße, mineralisch und gut anhaftend, bereits entwickelt, ein lebendiger Stil, verfügt über Entwicklungspotenzial."
