Chateau La Mission Haut Brion 2014 - Case of 6 Bottles (75cl)The 2014 La Mission Haut Brion is picked between 15 September and 8 October and raised in 55% new oak. It has retained that engagingly fresh and vibrant bouquet, the bashful nature that it showed in barrel replaced by a more outgoing personality. This is an exquisite bouquet with pure black fruit, cold stone, a touch of black olive and later a suggestion of boysenberry preserve. The palate is still structured and considering that a majority is Merlot,

Anthèse is very well-balanced and approachable

The 2016 Lynch Bages with 13

000 bottles of this beauty

not quite up to the level of the ethereal 2009

tannic spine shaping the impressively complex if compact finale

Merlot 29%

seductive cassis

with sushi

the 2016 Léoville Las Cases is quite closed to begin

except for the Haut-Brion

An understated effort

not a hair out of place from start to finish