WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 869; underperforming the average for the sub-region in 2014 which is 894. 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 2014 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2014 but no other wine from Château La Mission-Haut-Brion: Shimmering, Majestic, Mouthwatering, Grained, Bright, Hedonistic, Cocoa, Integrity, Masculine, Linear. 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 2014 (12.5% vs 13.11%). 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 Cheval Blanc 2005, Château Cheval Blanc 2006, Château L’Eglise-Clinet 2010, Château Cheval Blanc 2010, Château Lafite Rothschild 2014; but better value alternatives would be Château Pichon-Lalande 2005, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2014, Château Giscours 2005, Château Rauzan-Ségla 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 2014
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-17 |
gbp |
144 |
| 2016-01-05 |
gbp |
118 |
| 2015-05-29 |
gbp |
118 |