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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 |