La Chapelle de la Mission Haut-Brion Pessac-Leognan 2000 CS20230906 and silky rather than weighty

and silky rather than weighty

Bernabeleva farms old vines high in the Sierra de Gredos west of Madrid

Sustainably farmed

This showcases the areas blue and black schist

La Chapelle de la Mission Haut-Brion Pessac-Leognan 2000 CS20230906 and silky rather than weightyLa 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