Château La Mission Haut-Brion 2025
Pessac-Léognan Grand Cru Classé
Bordeaux, France
Regular price£870.00
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Arriving: Mid 2028
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| Style: Red | Packaging: |
| ABV: 13.6% | Closure: Cork |
| Organic: | Drink from: 2035 |
| Biodynamic: | Drink to: 2060 |
| Grapes: 58% Merlot; 38% Cabernet Sauvignon; 4% Cabernet Franc | |
Critic scores
97-99 RP, 94-96 NM, 97-99 AG, 96-97 JS, 96-98 JD, 97-99 LPB, 96 JA, 96 DC, 98-100 JL, 97-99 DB
Critic reviews
"A blend of 58.3% Merlot, 38.3% Cabernet Sauvignon and 3.4% Cabernet Franc, the 2025 La Mission Haut-Brion reveals a refined bouquet of smoky cassis, dark berries, spices and lead pencil, framed by a deft touch of new oak. Medium- to full-bodied, dense and layered, it’s built around a multidimensional core of fruit underpinned by fine, velvety tannins, concluding with a long, perfumed and precise finish. Combining depth with energy, it delivers a textural yet controlled expression of power, with a real sense of freshness. The result is a particularly faithful, charming rendition of La Mission, defined by its elegance and overall precision."
Yohan Castaing, April 2026, RobertParker.com
"The 2025 La Mission Haut-Brion was picked from August 28 until September 19 at around 23 hl/ha, lower than Haut-Brion, perhaps due to higher density of planting and less competition between vines. There is less new oak, at around 59%, the same as Haut-Brion, down from around 80% in recent years. This has a perfumed bouquet, one of the most floral that I can recall, beautifully defined with black cherries, blueberry and crushed violet scents. The palate is medium-bodied with chiselled tannins, a silver thread of acidity, quite linear in style with a strict, tensile, graphite-tinged finish. Yeah, it has to play second fiddle to Haut-Brion this year, but it is still a great La Mission. 13.6% alcohol."
Neal Martin, May 2026, Vinous.com
"The 2025 La Mission Haut-Brion is one of my early favorites in this vintage. Aromatic and vibrant, with striking purity, the Grand Vin is magnificent. Red-toned fruit, blood orange, pomegranate, mint and cinnamon soar from the glass. Beams of supporting tannin lend energy and shape. In a word: compelling. One of the wines of the vintage."
Antonio Galloni, April 2026, Vinous.com
"Signature finesse coupled with clear intensity and concentration, muscular with a juicy frame and crushed red rose petals on the finish. Huge ageing potential, this stretches out through the palate and delivers finesse and hidden power. 69% 1st wine. 27hl/ha yield. Harvest August 27 to September 19. 59% new oak. 3.73ph"
Jane Anson, April 2026, JaneAnson.com
"Gorgeous floral fragrance on the nose, perfumed with blackcurrants and black cherries, delicate but with real purity. Supple, round and generous, filling the mouth – chewy and grippy yet with fleshy and ripe red fruit, nothing drying, underpinned by liquorice and salty stones giving a chalky grip on the finish. Structured and intensely concentrated with energy, focus, depth and layering of texture. Full of mass, vibrancy and character. Not pristinely perfect but fun, plump and hedonistic"
Georgina Hindle, April 2026, Decanter.com
"(Pessac-Léognan; 58.3% Merlot; 38.3% Cabernet Sauvignon; 3.4% Cabernet Franc; a final yield of 26 hl/ha; 13.5% alcohol; tasted at La Mission Haut-Brion). This is darker fruited than Haut-Brion with the additional Cabernet bringing extra depth, a coolness to the mid palate and a calm, tranquil, cool and fresh almost plungepool clarity to the wine. I love the gentle hint of cedar and the more obvious graphite notes. I love too the florality - here violet and lily of the valley; there's a little trace of incense too and the plume of smoke from the recently snuffed candle. Gracious in its dark fruit profile - mulberry, sloe, damson and black berry, with a little black cherry stone. Ample at first, very spherical in form in the mouth and incredibly dense and compact at the cool core. There's staggering concentration here but so much charm and even accessibility for such a great vintage with so much long-term potential. Long, gently tapering and almost eternal on the finish. Overall, I find this a little more vibrant and vivid, more lifted too than Haut-Brion itself."
Colin Hay, April 2026, DrinksBusiness.com
Yohan Castaing, April 2026, RobertParker.com
"The 2025 La Mission Haut-Brion was picked from August 28 until September 19 at around 23 hl/ha, lower than Haut-Brion, perhaps due to higher density of planting and less competition between vines. There is less new oak, at around 59%, the same as Haut-Brion, down from around 80% in recent years. This has a perfumed bouquet, one of the most floral that I can recall, beautifully defined with black cherries, blueberry and crushed violet scents. The palate is medium-bodied with chiselled tannins, a silver thread of acidity, quite linear in style with a strict, tensile, graphite-tinged finish. Yeah, it has to play second fiddle to Haut-Brion this year, but it is still a great La Mission. 13.6% alcohol."
Neal Martin, May 2026, Vinous.com
"The 2025 La Mission Haut-Brion is one of my early favorites in this vintage. Aromatic and vibrant, with striking purity, the Grand Vin is magnificent. Red-toned fruit, blood orange, pomegranate, mint and cinnamon soar from the glass. Beams of supporting tannin lend energy and shape. In a word: compelling. One of the wines of the vintage."
Antonio Galloni, April 2026, Vinous.com
"Signature finesse coupled with clear intensity and concentration, muscular with a juicy frame and crushed red rose petals on the finish. Huge ageing potential, this stretches out through the palate and delivers finesse and hidden power. 69% 1st wine. 27hl/ha yield. Harvest August 27 to September 19. 59% new oak. 3.73ph"
Jane Anson, April 2026, JaneAnson.com
"Gorgeous floral fragrance on the nose, perfumed with blackcurrants and black cherries, delicate but with real purity. Supple, round and generous, filling the mouth – chewy and grippy yet with fleshy and ripe red fruit, nothing drying, underpinned by liquorice and salty stones giving a chalky grip on the finish. Structured and intensely concentrated with energy, focus, depth and layering of texture. Full of mass, vibrancy and character. Not pristinely perfect but fun, plump and hedonistic"
Georgina Hindle, April 2026, Decanter.com
"(Pessac-Léognan; 58.3% Merlot; 38.3% Cabernet Sauvignon; 3.4% Cabernet Franc; a final yield of 26 hl/ha; 13.5% alcohol; tasted at La Mission Haut-Brion). This is darker fruited than Haut-Brion with the additional Cabernet bringing extra depth, a coolness to the mid palate and a calm, tranquil, cool and fresh almost plungepool clarity to the wine. I love the gentle hint of cedar and the more obvious graphite notes. I love too the florality - here violet and lily of the valley; there's a little trace of incense too and the plume of smoke from the recently snuffed candle. Gracious in its dark fruit profile - mulberry, sloe, damson and black berry, with a little black cherry stone. Ample at first, very spherical in form in the mouth and incredibly dense and compact at the cool core. There's staggering concentration here but so much charm and even accessibility for such a great vintage with so much long-term potential. Long, gently tapering and almost eternal on the finish. Overall, I find this a little more vibrant and vivid, more lifted too than Haut-Brion itself."
Colin Hay, April 2026, DrinksBusiness.com