The 2019 Château La Mission Haut-Brion is a wine of extraordinary depth and complexity, embodying the power and refinement typical of this esteemed estate. The blend, consisting of 53% Merlot, 39.5% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 7.5% Cabernet Franc, offers a rich, full-bodied structure, with vibrant black fruit flavors of blackberry, blackcurrant, and raspberry, alongside notes of dark chocolate, spice, and subtle oak. The wine reveals a fine balance between its powerful, layered tannins and its bright acidity, ensuring great aging potential. While it may appear reserved now, its long-term potential is immense, with expectations for the wine to evolve and blossom from 2025 onwards. With its finely honed tannins and refined structure, the 2019 vintage promises to reward those who have the patience to cellar it until 2033 and beyond.

The Wine Advocate | RP 99
Published: Apr 7, 2022
Drink: 2033-2070

The 2019 La Mission Haut-Brion unwinds in the glass with aromas of inky berry fruit, wild plums and cherries mingled with notions of warm spices, burning embers and creamy new oak. Full-bodied, deep and layered, it's rich and concentrated, with a deep core of fruit, bright acids and fine, powdery tannins. Powerful and tightly wound, this is less sumptuous and demonstrative out of the gates than its sibling Haut-Brion, but I suspect it possesses even greater potential. 

Jamessuckling.com | JS 98
Published: Mar 3, 2022

Blackcurrants and crushed stones with violets and roses. Earthy and black truffle notes, too. Medium to full body with firm, silky tannins that are layered and attractive, in a muscular and toned fashion. Iodine, ink, earth and bark with wet-vine undertones to the fruit at the end. Reserved and impressive. Best after 2025.

Decanter | D 96
Published: Oct 31, 2023
Drink: 2027-2048

Spice notes and floral characters abound on the nose. A very complex, refined and slightly reticent wine on first tasting. Dark berry and blackcurrant fruit, powerfully structured with fine-grained tannins and new oak to provide structure for ageing. Despite the 14.5% alcohol there is great elegance with La Mission in 2019 – not as showy as Haut-Brion but potentially even more rewarding in the longer term.
Closure: Cork
Alcohol: 14.50%
Body: Full
Oak: Oaked
Grapes: 7.5% Cabernet Franc 39.5% Cabernet Sauvignon 53% Merlot

Jancisrobinson.com | JR 18
Published: Feb 1, 2023
Drink: 2027-2040

Tasted blind. The colour is a relatively simple crimson. Light nose, but a sweet, slightly oaky start. This doesn’t quite seem to belong to this subtle pack. Tea leaves and lots of dramatic, minerally tannin. Long and a little hot.

Mission-haut-brion.com

Complex, full-bodied and rich… Château La Mission Haut-Brion red invites the most flattering descriptions. The blend adapts according to the vintage, but Château La Mission Haut-Brion red wine always retains its unparalleled charisma.

2019 tasting notes
Beautiful, deep crimson colour.
The nose is intense, with notes of raspberry and blackberry.
Swirling in the glass reveals surprisingly ripe fruit aromas, perfectly complemented by hints of understated vanilla, oak and delicate spices.
Starts out round, fleshy and full-bodied, unveiling delicious flavours mid-palate. Black fruit and liquorice notes come to the fore, followed by juicy and velvety tannins. This wine improves with each passing day since it was put into barrel. It demonstrates what we caught a glimpse of at the end of alcoholic fermentation and that the malolactic conversion hadsomewhat obscured: this 2019 Mission is indeed a great wine.