Chapelle La Mission Haut-Brion

Château La Mission Haut-Brion is an estate in the Pessac-Léognan appellation in the northern Graves, a few miles southwest of Bordeaux's city center. Its near-neighbor and sister estate Château Haut-Brion was the only estate from the region featured in the 1855 Bordeaux Classification, but La Mission Haut-Brion (rated a Graves Grand Cru in the 1959 rankings) is often judged and priced as the equal of Haut-Brion and the other first growths. The wine is particularly known for its fruit intensity, rounded, generous texture and silky tannins, and has received multiple 100-point ratings from American critic Robert Parker. 

La Chapelle de La Mission Haut-Brion is produced in very “confidential” quantities, this red wine is the gateway to the world of Chateau La Mission Haut-Brion (3,000 to 3,500 cases). The key concept that defines this wine is pleasure, as it bewitches all the senses, even when young. It possesses all the harmony and seductive characteristics of its famous older brother.

Loads of black, red, and deep fruits with tobacco leaves, herbs, and burning forest leaves open the wine. On the palate, the wine is even better with its smoked fruit palate, savory, spicy, sweet, dark cherries, and currants in the finish. There is a polish to the tannins, sweetness to the fruits, and smoky plushness in the finish.

Enjoy it while waiting for the Grand Vin to develop.