La Mission Haut Brion 2000 750mL Rhone Readers should keep in mind

Readers should keep in mind that all of these wines are aged in 100% new French oak for 20 months

tasted 5/2017

mineral-driven vintage belying that year's unseasonably warm period

” - James Suckling

extremely youthful 2002

La Mission Haut Brion 2000 750mL Rhone Readers should keep in mind2000 La Mission Haut Brion Wine Advocate # 202, August, 2012: One of the wines of the vintage, the 2000 has barely budged in its evolution since it was bottled and released in 2002. After ten years in bottle, it still reveals a dense opaque purple color along with a potentially sensational bouquet of blueberries, black currants, graphite, asphalt and background oak. Extremely powerful, full bodied and superbly concentrated with good acidity and high