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  • Country ranking ?

    152
  • Producer ranking ?

    9
  • Decanting time

    3h
  • When to drink

    now to 2035
  • Food Pairing

    Mature cheddar cheese

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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...

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Wine Information

Weather conditions 2000

Sum of temperatures : 3431 °C
Rain : 436 mm
Days where temperature above 30 °C : 21
Harvest : from 13/09/2000 to 29/09/2000

Current vintage notes

A mild start to the year, a very wet, hot spring, followed by a dry, scorching
summer: such were the weather features of this year, which has become legendary
both through its date and the quality of wine produced.

Temperature records were broken: 1.5°C above ...

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Vintage 2000

BORDEAUX 2000 – A  DREAM VINTAGE

Weather conditions / Vintage 2000 has from the very start been proclaimed as one of the best vintages of modern times. In spring 2003, I've had many opportunities to find out, if we really have a true dream vintage in our hands.

During harvest 2000, while doing "personal inspection" in the vineyards, I noticed that something extraordinary big was on its way. Grapes looked extremely healthy.

While sorti...

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Average Bottle Price

2023 2020 2017 2016 2015 2013 2010 2005
690€ +1.6% 679€ +20.4% 564€ -3.1% 582€ -2.2% 595€ -19.9% 743€ -13.1% 855€ +93.0% 443€

This data comes from the FINE Auction Index, a composite of average prices for wines sold at commercial auctions in 20 countries. The average prices from each year have been collected since 1990. This chart plots the index value of the average price of the wines.

Tasting note

color

Medium

nose

Intense

recommend

Yes

Written Notes

Tasted on the 9th December 2016. This wine tasted closed, but its all cylinders were fully loaded, just waiting for perfect time to show all the fabulous things. Patience required.

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Origin

Pessac-Leognan, Bordeaux

Vintage Quality

Excellent

Value For Money

Very good

Investment potential

Average

Fake factory

None
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