Great balance, sweet, perfect, breed. Incredible fruit. Perfection - 20 1/8
Lee Kramer, August 4 (unknown year)
1953 La Mission Haut Brion
Château La Mission-Haut-Brion--Vintage 1953
1 dozen bottles per lot
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1953 Vintage ****
"One of my all time favorite vintages, combining fragrance, finesse and charm, epitomizing claret at its best, the antithesis of some latter day blockbusters. As so often with the Bordeaux maritime climate and changeable weather conditions, not an entirely perfect growing season. A hot, sunny summer and propitious ripening period was rudely interrupted by heavy rain mid-September. However, the subsequent late harvest produced wines which were easy, lovely to taste even in cask: beautiful babies, no problem at puberty, well behaved teenagers, elegant, lively and charming in their prime, middle-aged without crises, ageing gracefully. Unless treated badly." MB, Vintage Wine
Château La Mission-Haut-Brion--Vintage 1953
Talence (Graves), cru classé
Levels: two bottom neck, four top, five upper and one mid shoulder; two bin soiled labels
In original carton
"A predictably good wine. Not a lightweight '53, though plenty of fragrance and some elegance. More recently, in bottles and one magnum: still impressive, totally different in character and style to the Haut-Brion at the La Reserve tasting. Last noted June 2000 *****, and will continue." MB, Vintage Wine
1 dozen bottles per lot
"One of my all time favorite vintages, combining fragrance, finesse and charm, epitomizing claret at its best, the antithesis of some latter day blockbusters. As so often with the Bordeaux maritime climate and changeable weather conditions, not an entirely perfect growing season. A hot, sunny summer and propitious ripening period was rudely interrupted by heavy rain mid-September. However, the subsequent late harvest produced wines which were easy, lovely to taste even in cask: beautiful babies, no problem at puberty, well behaved teenagers, elegant, lively and charming in their prime, middle-aged without crises, ageing gracefully. Unless treated badly." MB, Vintage Wine
Château La Mission-Haut-Brion--Vintage 1953
Talence (Graves), cru classé
Levels: two bottom neck, four top, five upper and one mid shoulder; two bin soiled labels
In original carton
"A predictably good wine. Not a lightweight '53, though plenty of fragrance and some elegance. More recently, in bottles and one magnum: still impressive, totally different in character and style to the Haut-Brion at the La Reserve tasting. Last noted June 2000 *****, and will continue." MB, Vintage Wine
1 dozen bottles per lot