Chateau La Mission Haut-Brion, Pessac-Leognan, France 2019 Recent Offers (100% pinot noir): Light

(100% pinot noir): Light

Bouvier fashions a red from his parcel here that is at once serious and gay

red skinned apples

This is very subtle

Tight and very long

Chateau La Mission Haut-Brion, Pessac-Leognan, France 2019 Recent Offers (100% pinot noir): LightThe 2019 La Mission Haut Brion unwinds in the glass with aromas of inky berry fruit, wild plums and cherries mingled with notions of warm spices, burning embers and creamy new oak. Full bodied, deep and layered, it's rich and concentrated, with a deep core of fruit, bright acids and fine, powdery tannins. Powerful and tightly wound, this is less sumptuous and demonstrative out of the gates than its sibling, Haut Brion, but I suspect it possesses even