Chateau La Mission Haut-Brion, Pessac-Leognan, France 2018 Aux Origines Light to medium-bodied

Light to medium-bodied

openly fruity and soft chalk bouquet with some lovely dashes of lemon juice and notes of flint stones

nectarine and orange blossom

A serious nose

Practically opaque

Chateau La Mission Haut-Brion, Pessac-Leognan, France 2018 Aux Origines Light to medium-bodiedAlthough it emerges from a similar terroir and the same winemaking team, the 2018 Chteau La Mission Haut Brion is a dramatically different wine than the Haut Brion and has a more concentrated, dense, powerful style that is all potential at this point. Dense purple hued, with lots of crme de cassis, black cherries, smoked meats, lead pencil, graphite, and crushed stone aromatics, it hits the palate with full bodied richness, a concentrated mid palate,