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Lot #124. La Mission Haut-Brion 1955

Description: Consists of 1 Bottle, 0.75L
Score: 100 RP.
"Tasted 13 times with consistent notes. Even allowing for the greatness of Haut-Brion and Mouton-Rothschild, the 1955 La Mission is the wine of the vintage. It possesses a sweet, cedary, clove, smoke, and black-raspberry-scented nose, and rich, full-bodied, remarkably harmonious flavors that ooze with ripe fruit, glycerin, and heady alcohol. The tannin has totally melted away . . . . There is no indication of any fragility or decline . . . . It is an amazing, complex, superbly well-balanced La Mission-Haut-Brion!" Wine Advocate #95, Oct 1994
Provenance: The Tower Cellar
Notes: Very top shoulder, lightly worn and lightly scuffed short capsule reveals vintage-branded cork, nicked, marked, mold stained, and heavily damp stained label.
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Lot Location: Orange County
Estimate: $2,000

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