Château La Mission Haut-Brion Blanc 2025 Pessac-Léognan Grand Cru Classé - OWC1

Jeb Dunnuck
98 punten
Honeyed peach, minty herbs, and flowers all define the 2025 Château La Mission Haut-Brion Blanc, a brilliant white based on 64.5% Sauvignon Blanc and 35.5% Sémillon that's being raised in 30% new oak, which is slightly less than in past vintages. Medium to full-bodied on the palate, it's incredibly pure and focused, with juicy acidity and a great finish. It's an absolutely stunning wine that pretty much stopped me in my tracks. Drink 2026-2050.

The Wine Cellar Insider
97 punten
Honeysuckle, lemon grass, white peaches, green apples, and pineapples explode from the glass. The palate is packed with waves of bright, fresh, vibrant, sweet, yellow fruits, with the perfect accent of bitterness, salt, and sweetness in the finish. The wine is made from a blend of 64.5% Semillon, and 35.5% Sauvignon Blanc, picking took place August 14-August 21. Yields were 22 hectoliters per hectare. 14.5% ABV, 3.2 pH. Drink from 2028-2045.

Neal Martin, Vinous
95-97 punten
The 2025 La Mission Haut-Brion Blanc has a really lovely Sémillon-driven bouquet (64.5% of the blend), beautifully defined with touches of apple blossom, white flowers and pear drop. The palate is very well balanced, with fine acidity, taut and fresh, a little more weight than the Haut-Brion Blanc thanks to the Sémillon, with a touch of ginger and chamomile towards the finish. This is a great La Mission Haut-Brion Blanc, perchance the best dry white Bordeaux in 2025.

Wine Advocate
95-97 punten
The La Mission Haut-Brion 2025 Blanc, a blend of 64.5% Sémillon and 35.5% Sauvignon Blanc, was vinified in barrels and bottled from April 13. It reveals a pure, crystalline bouquet that is both fresh and lightly exotic, with notes of ripe white fruits, jasmine, linden and verbena. Medium- to full-bodied, dense and enveloping, it’s layered yet vibrant and built around a fleshy core of fruit, supported by bright acidity and elegant tension. Ethereal and finely detailed, it is remarkable in its ability to retain freshness despite the warmth of the vintage. This is one of the most complete expressions of the wine in recent years, combining both density and brightness, and among the finest white wines produced in Bordeaux this year.

Decanter
96 punten
Both baked and freshly picked apple scents on the nose with clementine, lemon blossom, a touch of apple pie, cinnamon and some soft vanilla notes - smells glorious. Bright and sharp with real energy, focus and zing from the start, such a juicy citrus mid-palate before slightly lengthening and straightening out with a bitter pineapple and stony edge. I love the energy here, focused and racy with clear definition from start to finish. Ageing will add a bit more weight but this is very good, extremely precise and poised with plenty of fruit and lift. Lovely. Pineapple tang. 3.2pH. A yield of 23hl/ha.

Lisa Perrotti-Brown 
96 punten
The 2025 La Mission Haut-Brion Blanc rockets out of the glass with intense scents of fresh pineapple and green mango, giving way to nuances of lemongrass, wet pebbles, and honeysuckle with a waft of coriander seed. The full-bodied palate delivers electric tension with vibrant tropical fruit and citrus layers and a long, chalky finish. The blend is 35.5% Sauvignon Blanc and 64.5% Sémillon. The alcohol is 14.5%. This was aged in French oak barrels (31% new). This was tasted as a bottled wine

Falstaff
95 punten
Light yellow-green, silver reflections. Delicate bouquet, white blossoms, a hint of pears and mango, delicate blossom honey, underlaid with candied orange zest. Powerful, ripe yellow tropical fruit, mineral, fine, integrated acidity, salty nuances, some grapefruit on the finish, a full-bodied food wine, good length, has ageing potential.