Château La Mission-Haut-Brion - Pessac-Léognan 2006 (750ml)
Price: $399.00
| Producer | Château La Mission-Haut-Brion |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bordeaux |
| Subregion | Pessac-Leognan |
| Varietal | Bordeaux Blend |
| Vintage | 2006 |
| Sku | 10585 |
| Size | 750ml |
Wine Enthusiast: 96 Points
Wonderful sweet fruit, velvet in texture, with concentrated ripe fruits and red berries. This is a wine that rolls sumptuously around the mouth, the tannins certainly dense but full of the same sweetness as the fruit. The final flavor is perfumed and fresh. Deceptively attractive, it will profit from many years’ aging.
Wine Spectator: 5 Points
Almost jammy with vanilla bean and coffee undertones. Full-bodied and very powerful with big juicy tannins and a long finish. Very big and generous for the vintage showing exceptional quality. Best after 2015. 6000 cases made.
Vinous: 94+ Points
Medium ruby-red. Roasted redcurrant scorched earth minerals roasted herbs Cuban cigar tobacco and licorice on the rather forbidding nose. Densely packed but with a light touch thanks to penetrating acidity and minerality. Showing no easy sweetness today with red fruits lurking in the deep background. Finishes with chewy serious tannins whose youthful toughness calls for a decade of aging.
vWine Advocate: 94 Points
A somewhat under-the-radar La Mission the 2006 was generally overlooked following the brilliance of the 2005. A young dense purple-hued wine that is developing beautifully it exhibits notes of Asian plum sauce charcoal barbecue smoke roasted meats graphite and background oak. Full-bodied with good acidity moderate tannin and a vigorous powerful youthfulness the 2006 will age more quickly than the 2005 but it still requires another 5-8 years of cellaring. Anticipated Maturity: 2014-2035.
