WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 883; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 2009 which is 877. 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 2009 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2009 but no other wine from Château La Mission-Haut-Brion: Saline, Sloes, Dominance, Bitterness, Legs, Phenomenal, Camphor, Gentle, Blossom, Hefty. The wine has significantly higher levels of alcohol than this producer normally outputs (14.5% vs 13.53%); it has significantly higher levels of alcohol than this region in 2009 (14.5% vs 13.34%). The wine will be ready to drink in 3 years (in 2020) and should be consumed within the next 18 years (by 2035). 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 Latour 2009, Château Haut-Brion 2010, Château Latour 2009, Château Haut-Brion 2009, Château Ausone 2010; but better value alternatives would be Château Pontet-Canet 2009, Château Cos d’Estournel 2005, Château Haut-Bailly 2009, Château Pavie 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 2009
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-16 |
gbp |
626 |
| 2016-01-05 |
gbp |
358 |
| 2015-05-29 |
gbp |
450 |