WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 946; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 2006 which is 901. 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 2006 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2006 but no other wine from Château La Mission-Haut-Brion: Star, Dancing, Exquisite, Elevated. The wine has significantly lower levels of alcohol than this producer normally outputs (12.5% vs 13.47%); it has broadly similar levels of alcohol for the region in 2006 (12.5% vs 13.01%). The wine has been ready to drink for 3 years (since 2014) and should be consumed within the next 9 years (by 2026). 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 Cheval Blanc 2005, Château Cheval Blanc 2005, Château Margaux 2006, Château Margaux 2006, Château Lafite Rothschild 2005; but better value alternatives would be Château Rauzan-Ségla 2005, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2005, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2005, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2005, Château Pontet-Canet 2005.
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. This wine is in the bottom 10% of wines by value; you might very well be paying for the name, rather than the wine.
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Prices & Deals for Château La Mission-Haut-Brion 2006
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-17 |
gbp |
164 |
| 2016-01-04 |
gbp |
375 |
| 2015-05-29 |
gbp |
229 |