La Chapelle de la Mission Haut-Brion Pessac-Leognan 2000 OTHERREGION Slightly sweet

Slightly sweet

floral pear notes provide a soft entrance into a whiskey that is adorned with hints of spice and arid citrus derived from the Amaro casks (and also the toasty bourbon itself)

balanced by saline minerality and remarkable freshness

three of which are vintage-dated

La Chapelle de la Mission Haut-Brion Pessac-Leognan 2000 OTHERREGION Slightly sweetLa Chapelle is the second wine of La Mission Haut Brion, one of the legendary Pessac Lognan estates that sits across the road from Haut Brion itself. The 2000 vintage was hailed from the start as one of the great modern Bordeaux years, and a quarter century on, this bottling is sitting squarely in its drinking window. The youthful blue fruit and graphite of the early days has given way to a fleshier, more evolved, more complex wine with silky tannins