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| [Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Mission Haut Brion | Pessac-Leognan | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 93-95 | 94 | 93-95 | - | |
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The 2024 La Mission Haut-Brion is such a classy wine. Strong floral and savory notes meld into a core of plum, blackberry, gravel, spice, leather, tobacco and incense. Medium in body, with no hard edges, the 2024 is a delight. It offers lovely freshness and energy throughout. There is a bit of graininess in the tannin, a reminder of the challenges of the growing season. Score: 93 - 95 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2028-2039 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. Score: 93 - 95 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2027 - 2044 Medium to full intensity, vibrant plum colour, this is elegant and balanced, with the same juicy orchard apple character that you find in La Chapelle, along with cloves, incense, slate, crayon and baking spice, lots of complexity and balance. The aromatics are a little subdued right now but this has ageing ability and estate signature. 5.3 press, 75% new oak, 26hl/h yield. Score: 94 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2042 |
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| [Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Pape Clement | Pessac-Leognan | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 89-91 | - | 94-96 | - | |
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The 2024 Pape Clément is unusual in that Cabernet Sauvignon drives the blend. That is evident in the wine's strong savory profile and overall structural feel. A reduction in the oak imprint emphasizes fruit and overall vibrancy. The 2024 is not as showy or easy to taste as most vintages, but the style here has also undergone a pretty radical transformation. It was vinified in oak, steel and concrete. A significant portion of the wine saw malolactic fermentation in tank rather than oak, as had been the case in the past. That adds up to a vibrant, nervy Pape Clément that represents a new era here. Score: 94 - 96 Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com Maturity: 2034-2054 A smoky, oaky bouquet of spices, incense and dark berries prefaces the 2024 Pape Clément, a moderately weighted, supple and open-knit palate built around tangy acids and brittle tannins. Score: 89 - 91 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2026 - 2032 |
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| [Add to wish list] [Add to pre-order list] | Smith Haut Lafitte Rouge | Pessac-Leognan | ---- | 6x75cl | - | - | 90-92 | 94 | 91-94 | - | |
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The 2024 Smith Haut Lafitte is raw and not fully formed. Today the tannins are imposing. There's good energy and depth in the glass, but the 2024 is very backward. Floral and spice notes emerge with air, but for the time being, Smith Haut Lafitte is a bit of a mystery. Score: 91 - 94 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2032-2044 Notes of spices, oak, dark berries and gentian preface the 2024 Smith Haut Lafitte, a medium-bodied, firm and structured wine with an assertive tannic frame that leads to a compact, gentian-inflected finish. This blend of 67% Cabernet Sauvignon, 27% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot, matured in 60% new oak, is somewhat introverted and linear, making it a chewy Smith Haut Lafitte that will need time to unwind. YC Score: 90 - 92 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Maturity: 2026 - 2036 Toasted cedar and sandalwood oak on the nose, the team as Smith Haut-Lafitte has done a lovely job of adding a gourmet lick of grilled blueberry and raspberry fruits to the opening moments of the wine, alongside richer damson and black cherry in the mid-palate. Great energy, lift and juice, vivid fruits, graphite, ink, chalk tannins, slimmer through the mid palate than in the bigger vintages, but everything in its place. 21hl/h yield, 60% new oak. Fabien Teitgen technical director. Score: 94 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2042 |
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