2014
Château La Mission Haut-Brion Blanc
Tasting notes
The nose has lovely hints of ripe fruit and with very subtle underlying vanilla aromas.
The wine is full-bodied, rich, round, vivacious, and complex from
the beginning to the end on the palate, with perfect balance.
The weather
2014 was marked by an extraordinary Indian summer that saved the vintage. Fine spring weather was conducive to a good start to the growing season. However, challenging summer conditions seriously slowed down ripening. Fortunately, the month of September was absolutely beautiful, with dry, extremely sunny weather accompanied by highs of close to 30°C. This superb weather, with cool night-time temperatures, enabled the grapes to ripen beautifully, and they were able to be brought into the vat house having reached a perfect level of ripeness.
A few figures
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Harvest Dates
From September 5th to 12th
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Blend
Semillon: 72 %
Sauvignon: 28 % -
New barrels
55%
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Alcohol
14.5 %
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Bottling date
n the 11th of July 2015