Chateau La Mission Haut-Brion, Pessac-Leognan, France 2018 Aux Origines nectarine and orange blossom

nectarine and orange blossom

openly fruity and soft chalk bouquet with some lovely dashes of lemon juice and notes of flint stones

it's another tour de force from the incredibly talented Jean-Luc Thunevin

with lots of extraction

Hints of spices and walnuts

Chateau La Mission Haut-Brion, Pessac-Leognan, France 2018 Aux Origines nectarine and orange blossomAlthough it emerges from a similar terroir and the same winemaking team, the 2018 Chteau La Mission Haut Brion is a dramatically different wine than the Haut Brion and has a more concentrated, dense, powerful style that is all potential at this point. Dense purple hued, with lots of crme de cassis, black cherries, smoked meats, lead pencil, graphite, and crushed stone aromatics, it hits the palate with full bodied richness, a concentrated mid palate,