WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 900; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 2011 which is 889. 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 2011 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2011 but no other wine from Château La Mission-Haut-Brion: Barbecue, Meats, Precocious, Chalky, Vibrancy, Taut, Bitter. The wine has approximately standard levels of alcohol for the producer (13.5% vs 13.58%); it has broadly similar levels of alcohol for the region in 2011 (13.5% vs 13.13%). 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 Lafite Rothschild 2007, Château Lafite Rothschild 2005, Château Margaux 2008, Château Latour 2005; but better value alternatives would be Château Haut-Brion 2008, Château Pichon-Lalande 2005, Château Clerc-Milon 2010, Château Pontet-Canet 2005, Château Haut-Batailley 2009.
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 2011
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2015-05-29 |
gbp |
233 |