WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 886; underperforming the average for the sub-region in 1997 which is 907. The average score for Château La Mission-Haut-Brion is 947, making this a below average effort for the producer.
When people talk about wines from Château La Mission-Haut-Brion they use words like Fruit, Tannins, Full, Long, Purple, Ripe, Black, Sweet, Deep, Tannin, Intense, Tobacco, Rich, Earth, Structure. The 1997 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 1997 but no other wine from Château La Mission-Haut-Brion: Weedy, Confident, Developed, Herb, Straightforward, Simple. The wine has significantly lower levels of alcohol than this producer normally outputs (12.5% vs 13.63%); it has broadly similar levels of alcohol for the region in 1997 (12.5% vs 12.6%). The wine has been ready to drink for 16 years (since 2001) and has been past its best for 5 (since 2012). It normally takes wines from Château La Mission-Haut-Brion around 9 years to be ready to start drinking, and 15 further years to decline.
It represents good value compared to Château Pavie 2005, Château Cheval Blanc 2005, Château Palmer 2005, Château Lafite Rothschild 2005, Château Lafite Rothschild 2007; but better value alternatives would be Château Pontet-Canet 2005, Château Lafon-Rochet 2005, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2005, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2005, Château Giscours 2005.
MyWineMine has compared this wine to all others it has scored; this wine offers below average value for money when looking at the price per point of MyWineMine Score, 70% of wines are better value.
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Prices & Deals for Château La Mission-Haut-Brion 1997
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-05 |
gbp |
104 |
| 2015-05-29 |
gbp |
125 |