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La Mission Haut Brion, Blanc 2007
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Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
Pale, bright yellow. Musky aromas and flavors of pineapple, grapefruit, crushed rock, ginger and mustard seed. Offers an uncanny combination of great density without any impression of weight, with the mid-palate displaying complex smoke and spice notes and outstanding lift. Maintains its thickness straight through to the finish, where it's virtually impossible to scrape this juice off your palate. This extremely promising young wine needs long aging to knit.
Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
(a 55/45 blend of sauvignon blanc and semillon) Bright lemon-yellow color. Musky yellow apricot, peach, quince and honey on the nose. Large-scaled and fat with white fruits, spices, flowers and honey. A chewy, thick, voluminous wine with magical lift considering its richness; one can eat this! In contrast to the Laville, this is showing its semillon side today. Finishes with a remarkably long flavor of peach fuzz. Jean-Philippe Delmas notes that he made nearly 20% less of his two white wines in 2007 than in 2006-about 500 cases of each in the new vintage.
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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