La Mission Haut Brion 1975

Chateau La Mission Haut Brion 1975 is a vintage Bordeaux wine that has aged gracefully over the years. Its color is a deep ruby red with slight orange highlights on the rim, indicative of its age. On the nose, this wine offers a complex and intense bouquet of ripe dark fruit, blackcurrants, leather, cedar, tobacco, and truffle notes, all seamlessly integrated with oak nuances from its barrel aging. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, with silky and elegant tannins, well-balanced acidity, and a remarkable depth of flavor that evolves and expands with each sip. Flavors of black cherry, plum, and blackberry are complemented by spicy and earthy notes, which lead to a long and persistent finish. Overall, Chateau La Mission Haut Brion 1975 is a classic and well-structured Bordeaux wine that showcases the winery's mastery of the craft.

Robert Parker - 97 Points

"The 1975 La Mission Haut-Brion is a timeless wine. Still a saturated ruby-black in hue, it unfurls in the glass with a rich bouquet of dark fruits, cigar ash, camphor, loamy soil, truffles and smoke. Full-bodied and muscular, it's an immensely concentrated, highly extracted wine with a deep core of fruit underpinned by an imposing chassis of rich, chewy tannin that still asserts itself on the finish. The 1975 La Mission is one of the most powerful wines produced during the Woltner era at this château."

Antonio Galloni - 93 Points

"The 1975 La Mission Haut-Brion has been hailed in some quarters as a high point for the estate in the Seventies. My own experience has been one of inconsistency, especially compared to the reliable and, in my mind, superior 1978. According to a half-dozen or so tasting notes from 2000 onward, the 1975 was always robust, dense and nearly impenetrable. One bottle at the vertical in 2008 finally lived up to high expectations, but a follow-up two years later felt charmless. This bottle is conspicuously deep in hue. The nose is backward at first, eventually revealing blackberry, iodine and light licorice scents; later, a touch of gaminess creeps in. The palate is full-bodied and full of sinew, with thick tannins framing the multilayered, ferrous black fruit. This is huge in terms of grip, and almost brutish toward the finish. It’s impressive in stature, but the 1978 possesses greater nuance and more panache. Tasted at a private dinner in Hong Kong."