WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 917; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 2008 which is 883. The average score for Château La Mission-Haut-Brion is 946, 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 2008 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2008 but no other wine from Château La Mission-Haut-Brion: Improve, Asphalt, Extensive, Ripened, Decades, Tea, Leaves, Gracefully. The wine has approximately standard levels of alcohol for the producer (14% vs 13.55%); it has significantly higher levels of alcohol than this region in 2008 (14% vs 13.02%). The wine is ready to drink now (2017) and should be consumed within the next 16 years (by 2033). 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 Haut-Brion 2010, Château Palmer 2012, Château Margaux 2006, Château Palmer 2012, Château Cos d’Estournel 2005; but better value alternatives would be Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2009, Château Haut-Brion 2008, Château Pontet-Canet 2005, Les Forts de Latour 2005, Château Rauzan-Ségla 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, 80% of wines are better value.
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Prices & Deals for Château La Mission-Haut-Brion 2008
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-17 |
gbp |
120 |
| 2016-01-17 |
gbp |
130 |
| 2015-05-29 |
gbp |
165 |