La Mission Haut Brion 1975 750mL (Taped Label) Size:750mL blackberry and cherry

blackberry and cherry

most of this fruit is from David Abreu's Madrona Ranch

tasted 1/2017

The most opulent

2007 Schrader - Wine Advocate #186 - Dec 2009: There is something about the inky/purple-hued 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer To-Kalon Vineyard CCS (clone 4) that blows me away

La Mission Haut Brion 1975 750mL (Taped Label) Size:750mL blackberry and cherry"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