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  • Country ranking ?

    679
  • Producer ranking ?

    34
  • Decanting time

    2h
  • When to drink

    Now
  • Food Pairing

    Beef

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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

1950 Weather conditions
Sum of temperatures : 3252 °C
Rain : 346 mm
Days where temperature above 30 °C : 34

Current vintage notes
A better than normal year. Very vinous wines with much natural alcohol. Still
many excellent bottles


The land that makes up the Château La Mission Haut-Brion estate was donated in 1664 to the congregation of the Lazarites or Prêcheurs de la Mission, established by Saint Vincent de Paul. Appropriated by ...

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Vintage 1950

Looking more closely at the decade, attention should also be drawn to the 1950 Bordeaux vintage, which offered more quantity than quality - with a few exceptions. Due to the relatively rainy summer, expectations for the year were not very high, but the change in weather at the end of the year made it a good year, and even excellent in some areas. The wines did not have the full and balanced character of the previous year. They were rather note...

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Tasting note

color

Full

ending

Medium

flavors

Blackcurrant

nose

Intense, Ripe and Refined

recommend

Yes

taste

Concentrated, Complex and Full-bodied

Written Notes

Fine looking château-bottling. Top-shoulder level. Decanted two hours. Intense ruby colour with maroon tints. Extremely ripe cassis nose with delicate flower aromas, capsicum and touch of butterscotch. Full-bodied structure enjoys a moderate acidity, intense dark fruit and fine concentration. Wine turns out to be still very youthful and it is likely gain rich complexity with further ageing.
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Origin

Pessac-Leognan, Bordeaux
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