WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 922; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 2012 which is 891. 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 2012 shares all of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2012 but no other wine from Château La Mission-Haut-Brion: Leather, Waves, Blackcurrants, Berried, Baked. The wine has significantly lower levels of alcohol than this producer normally outputs (12.5% vs 13.63%); it has significantly lower levels of alcohol for the region in 2012 (12.5% vs 12.92%). The wine will be ready to drink in 3 years (in 2020) and should be consumed within the next 23 years (by 2040). 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 Cheval Blanc 2006, Château Palmer 2005, Château Montrose 2005, Château Haut-Brion 1998; but better value alternatives would be Château Haut-Bailly 2009, Château Malescot St Exupéry 2010, Château Pichon-Lalande 2005, Château Batailley 2008, Château Cos d’Estournel 2006.
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 2012
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-16 |
gbp |
170 |