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  • Country ranking ?

    483
  • Producer ranking ?

    26
  • Decanting time

    1h30min
  • When to drink

    now to 2025
  • Food Pairing

    Roast Duck Breast with Dried Cherry Sauc

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The Story

La Mission Haut Brion is situated in Bordeaux' southern suburb, Talence. From 1919 and until 1983, it was Woltner family, who had owned this property. Under Woltner's reign, La Mission Haut Brion experienced one of its greatest period with string of fine vintages and was considered then as fully on the level with First Growths and sometimes even better than these. In 1983, owners of Haut Brion purchased La Mission Haut Brion and today its Jean Philippe Delmas, who's responsible for this property.

 

La Mission-Haut-Brion's vineyards (Cabernet Sauvignon 48%, Merlot 45%, Cabernet Franc 7%) lie on a large (up to 18 metres deep in places) gravel bank interspersed with clay. The wine is fermented in temperature-controlled, stainless steel vats and then matured in oak barriques (100% new) for 18 months. The wines of La Mission Haut Brion are rich, oaky and powerful and need at least 10 years of bottle ageing before they should be broached.

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Wine Information

1929 Château La Mission Haut-Brion’s tasting notes

A hot, extremely dry year, the driest since the start of the century. The juices were very concentrated and the wines characterized by an enormous richness of tannin.
Wines slow to mature, but with exceptional structure.


Weather conditions
Sum of temperatures : 3267°C
Rainfall : 225 mm
Current vintage notes
A hot, extremely dry year, the driest since the start of the century. The juices were
very concentrated and the wines characterized by an enormous richness of tannin.
Wines slow to mature, but with exceptional structure.

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Vintage 1929

The year 1929 was an extraordinary year in the Bordeaux vineyards as well as on Wall Street. When the U.S. stock market collapsed in 1929, it produced several undesirable effects abroad, particularly in Europe, where many countries had not fully recovered from the aftermath of World War I. In Germany, the economic disaster and resulting social dislocation contributed to the rise of Adolf in the United States, there were 16 million unemployed – about a third of the available labor force.

In Bordeaux, the 1929 is one of the “legendary” vintages of the century. Its reputation was made even greater as the 1930s were truly a disastrous decade, and it wasn't until 1945 that anything of equivalent quality was made. In Bordeaux, these sixteen years were one of the longest “dark periods” of the 20th century. The year 1929 was extremely hot and dry, the driest since the turn of the century. It only rained for a short time during harvest, but the nice warm weather returned. The grapes became very concentrated, rich in tannins and produced wine to last.

 

 

 

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Tasting note

color

Full

ending

Long and Flavorful

flavors

Cedar, Leather and Earthy

nose

Intense

recommend

Yes

taste

Concentrated, Well-structured and Vigor

Written Notes

 we began our Bordeaux portion as well, thanks to a 1929 Chateau La Mission Haut Brion.  Its nose was very intense with lots of benevolent barnyard, game, wheat, band-aid and gravel.  The fruit was very gamey, and its mesquite flavors came out in a creamy and horsey way - that's a good horse, by the way lol.  There was ‘more opulence and richness’ and lots of grassy goodness with cereal and citrus skin on the finish.  Grapefruit! That's what it was, and the horse continued to gallop away on its finish (95).

  • 95p
La Mission Haut-Brion 1929/ Excellent looking necociant-bottled magnum. Level was high-shoulder. Decanted 1.5 hours. Full, very hopeful and youthful colour. Perhaps a little quiet on the nose, but otherwise there was plenty of elegance around. Fantastically rich, a little on the dry side, but very aromatic and voluptuous. Previous bottles were more fruity and more forceful. But there is still some length, complexity and spicy aromatic flavours for enjoyment. Finnish is positive and quite long. This magnum was not the best example of this excellent wine, at least all the château-bottled wines that we have tasted has been better in every way. At best very good and enthusiastic example of this classic Château.
  • 92p

Moderately intense, brick red colour. Beautiful, seductive and intense nose with majestic claret style – black currants, chocolate and cedar. Intense, concentrated palate reveals an energetic wine with vivid acidity, silky tannins and long mineral finish with profound cedar and black currant flavours. Very dense and youthful wine for its age. A splendid wine that is leaving short only in complexity of flavours. Decant for 15 minutes and serve at 18°C with Beef Entrecôte, deer fillet, or roasted duck. JL 95p (4/2010)

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Origin

Pessac-Leognan, Bordeaux

Vintage Quality

Excellent

Value For Money

Very good

Investment potential

Average

Fake factory

There is a possibility

Glass time

1h
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