WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 955; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 1998 which is 897. The average score for Château La Mission-Haut-Brion is 945, making this an above 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 1998 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 1998 but no other wine from Château La Mission-Haut-Brion: Ebullient, Gregarious, Multilayered, Rocks, Sensational, Aeration, Stupendous, Swirling, Olives, Limpid. The wine has been ready to drink for 8 years (since 2009) and should be consumed within the next 8 years (by 2025). 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 Lafite Rothschild 2008, Château Cos d’Estournel 2005, Château Latour 2009, Château Haut-Brion 2010, Château Pavie 2009; but better value alternatives would be Château Palmer 2012, Les Forts de Latour 2009, Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2008, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2010, Château Lynch-Bages 2011.
MyWineMine has compared this wine to all others it has scored; this wine offers very low value for money when looking at the price per point of MyWineMine Score, 80% of wines are better value.
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Prices & Deals for Château La Mission-Haut-Brion 1998
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-05 |
gbp |
188 |