Chateau La Mission Haut-Brion, Pessac-Leognan, France 2020 Switzerland and a spritz of lemon

and a spritz of lemon peel dancing over the top

The nose is intense and complex with notes of fresh red fruit and blackberries

apple blossoms

fine-grained tannins now

Chateau La Mission Haut-Brion, Pessac-Leognan, France 2020 Switzerland and a spritz of lemonThe 2020 La Mission Haut Brion is a brilliant effort that exhibits a level of balance and integration that are impressive in such a powerful young Bordeaux. Unwinding in the glass with aromas of dark berries and plums mingled with burning embers, pencil shavings, violets and smoked black tea, it's full bodied, deep and concentrated, with a layered, elegantly muscular profile, its brooding core of fruit framed by a generous endowment of powdery tannin