Bewertungen

• 100/100

  The Wine Cellar Insider
  This is a wow wine! From start to finish, everything here is just off the chart. Starting with its still, deep, dark hue, the wine offers a dark fruited, blackberry and black currant liqueur nose, with accents of cigar box, cedar, and smoke. On the palate, the wine coats your palate with its waves of dark black fruits. There is purity, symmetry, length, and harmony that you can sense. There is also weight and depth, with a seamless finish that keeps on going. Drink from 2025-2060."

• 20/20

  Weinwisser
  Extrem dunkles Purpur mit schwarzen Reflexen. Ein Traumbouquet, sehr vielschichtig, viel feine, exotische Holznoten, Kardamom, Zimt, Cakesfrüchte, Arabicakaffee, Trüffel, berauschendes und berührendes Nasenbild, man könnte stundenlang daran riechen. Grosser, perfekter Gaumen, ein Pfauenrad von hochreifen Cabernet-Aromen, saftig, seidig und gleichzeitig auch mächtig. Irgendwie passen diese beschreibenden Worte ganz und gar nicht zusammen, aber sie zeigen die mögliche Bandbreite dieses absolut perfekten Missions auf. Gehört zu den besten 2000ern und zu den besten Missions der neuesten Zeit. Wer hier den kleinsten Makel findet, der soll Privatdetektiv werden und das Weintrinken sofort aufgeben."

• 100/100

  The Wine Advocate
  One of the wines of the vintage, the 2000 has barely budged in its evolution since it was bottled and released in 2002. After ten years in bottle, it still reveals a dense opaque purple color along with a potentially sensational bouquet of blueberries, black currants, graphite, asphalt and background oak. Extremely powerful, full-bodied and superbly concentrated with good acidity and high but round tannins, this massive La Mission-Haut-Brion should take its place among this estate’s most hallowed vintages when it hits full maturity in another one to two decades. I was surprised by just how youthful this wine tasted at age 12. If tasted blind, I would have guessed it to be around 4 to 5 years old."

• 98/100

  Jane Anson
  One of the wines that I selected for the 67 Pall Mall Advent Calendar (in what has got to be my favourite job I have ever done), and wow this is good. Still densely packed with fruit and tannins even at 21 years old, fully hitting its stride. Open enough to be generous, especially after a few hours in a carafe, but young enough to remain juicy and concentrated, layer upon layer of caressing blackberry and cassis fruits, tobacco, cigar leaf, olive tapenade and grilled cedar. A vintage that was 1.5C higher temperatures than average pretty much throughout the growing season, with big tannins that needed time, but are now velvety and welcoming."

• 97/100

  Decanter
  Compared to the 1990, this is clearly a much more 'modern' wine with deep, youthful colour, dark cassis, kirsch and black olive notes on the palate. Powerfully built with firm tannins suggesting this still has a long way to go. Earthy, meaty characters, and a dryness to the tannins confirming the lack of rainfall during the growing season. Likely to flesh out and add richness over the next 15+ years. After a mild winter, spring was very hot and warm, before the onset of extremely dry conditions lasting into September. A very fine, long-living La Mission."

• 96/100

  Falstaff
  Zart floral, feine Kräuterwürze, angenehmes Beerenkonfit, zarter Edelholztouch. Finessenreich, stoffig, knackige Tannine, extraktsüß, bereits sehr gut balanciert, zeigt eine gute Länge, ein ausgezeichneter Speisenbegleiter. Lagern/trinken +40 Jahre;"

• 95/100

  James Suckling
  This is tight and beautiful, with a firm tannin structure and a beautiful silky texture. Full and concentrated, with a destiny. In the glass it keeps evolving, notes of iodine, spices, cedar, and earth tempt the senses. This still needs some time to come together. Don’t touch it until 2015."

• 91/100

  Wine Spectator
  More range here, with fresh bay and warm tapenade notes leading the way for a well-packed core of macerated fig, black currant and blackberry fruit flavors. Plenty tarry on the back end, but with a velvety edge that hangs on nicely."