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La Mission Haut Brion, Blanc 2006
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Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
Good full yellow with green highlights. Wonderfully complex but reticent nose offers peach, flowers, spices and hints of exotic fruits. Silky, fat and large-scaled, with wonderfully ripe but delineated flavors of mirabelle, ginger and honey. The sweet, very long finish saturates the palate with honey and nut flavors. Compelling wine, but I still give a slight edge to the 2004.
Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
(56% sauvignon blanc and 44% semillon; the harvest began on August 29) Very pale color. Pungent, scented nose offers minerals, fresh herbs, citrus peel and brisk minty lift. Juicy, vibrant and gripping, but also quite tactile and chewy, with captivating flavors of ginger candy and lemon drop. This shows a distinct sauvignon pungency and great cut and precision today. I would expect a wine like this to go on for decades in bottle, but it may well go through an extended closed stage along the way. A great example of a vintage that has produced white wines with a near-perfect combination of richness and verve.
About the Producer
25 hectares of red grape varieties, including Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc, are planted in the traditional vineyard of the winery; the Werner family's vineyard also has 4 hectares of white grape varieties, including Semillon, Sauvignon Blanc, used for Chateau La Mission Haut-Brion Blanc at different times during the Werner family's reign And the production of the original Chateau Laville Haut-Brion Blanc (Chateau Laville Haut-Brion Blanc). The Werner family's original Chateau La Tour Haut-Brion ceased production after 2005, and the 5 hectares of vineyards it owns are mainly used for the blending of the second red wine of Chateau Meixun. In terms of wine production, the winery will set up screening stations on trucks in the vineyard to screen the manually picked grapes for the first time. Fermentation is then carried out in a stainless steel wine tank equipped with a computer-controlled system that monitors the homogenization and temperature of the wine after measuring the temperature of the pressed grape juice and residue. Clarified with fresh egg whites before bottling, but not filtered.
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