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Château La Mission Haut-Brion is a Bordeaux wine estate, Grand Cru Classé de Graves, which extends over 26.6 hectares of vines divided between Merlot (43%), Cabernet Sauvignon (47%) and Cabernet Franc (10%). Its wines are among the very best red wines of Bordeaux with a complex aromatic palette of great intensity, between red fruits and empyreumatic notes (havana, chocolate, roasting, cedarwood).
Its history dates back to the beginning of the 16th century: it was created by the famous Lestonnac family and then took off with the priests of the Congregation of the Mission, or Lazarists, who owned it until the Revolution. Château La Mission Haut-Brion was awarded the gold medal at the Universal Exhibition in London in 1862.
Since 2005, the vineyard of Château La Tour Haut-Brion has been attached to Château La Mission Haut-Brion. 2005 was therefore the last vintage of Château La Tour Haut-Brion as an independent estate and it was, until that date, the smallest of the Grands Crus Classés of red Graves in terms of surface area with just 5 hectares. The grape varieties consisted of 35% Merlot, 45% Cabernet Sauvignon and 20% Cabernet Franc. The estate was created in the Middle Ages by the seigneury of La Tour d'Esquivens and then developed with the Rostaing family, one of the first to set up a secular viticulture in Bordeaux.
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