Red Wine: 1986 | Chateau la Mission Haut Brion
Strong ruby. Pleasantly deep nose, dark fruit, herbs, some tar, black tea, appears clearly mature. Full-bodied, with full tannins and plenty of fruit, yet very closed and tight on the finish.
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Producer: Chateau la Mission Haut Brion
Ratings: WS | 97 JS | 96
Vintage: 1986
Size: 750ml
ABV: 12.5%
Varietal: Bordeaux Blend Red
Country/Region: France, Bordeaux
Strong ruby. Pleasantly deep nose, dark fruit, herbs, some tar, black tea, appears clearly mature. Full-bodied, with full tannins and plenty of fruit, yet very closed and tight on the finish.
Reviews:
- Wine Spectator: An extremely impressive, yet slightly hard wine; still closed, but could be as great as the 1952. Dark ruby in color and very aromatic, with a rich cherry aromas. Full-bodied, with full tannins and plenty of fruit, yet very closed and tight on the finish.
- James Suckling: I tasted this at a fun restaurant in Bordeaux called Le Pre Ouvrard in the Bouscaut neighborhood. The 1986 was a great vintage for the Mdoc but less so for Pessac-Lognan, partly because an early torrent of rains wrought havoc for wines with more Merlot in their blends. Many of the 1986s are starting to fall apart, but the La Mission was holding on nicely with dark berries, currants, iodine and oyster shell. It was full-bodied, very soft, very silky and ended with a fresh finish. Its a wine definitely on a holding pattern.
Producer Information
Chteau La Mission Haut-Brion is an estate in the Pessac-Lognan appellation in the northern Graves, a few miles southwest of Bordeaux's city center. Its near-neighbor and sister estate Chteau 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 Mission Haut-Brion sees 18-22 months aging in barrel, with 80 percent new oak. Between 6000 and 7000 cases are produced each year. La Chapelle de La Mission Haut-Brion has been the second wine since 2006, when it replaced Chteau La Tour Haut-Brion. The estate also produces two Semillon-based white wines: La Mission Haut-Brion Blanc (formerly Laville Haut-Brion) and, since 2009, La Clart de Haut-Brion. The latter acts as a combined second wine for La Mission Haut-Brion and Haut-Brion Blanc. The estate takes its name from the Lazarite missionaries who owned it from 1682 until the French Revolution. It has been owned since 1983 by Domaine Clarence Dillon, the owner of Haut-Brion.
