La Chapelle de la Mission Haut-Brion Pessac-Leognan 2000 hide-gift-message A pure grain genever distilled

A pure grain genever distilled from a fermented mash of rye and malted barley

En la Rue de Vergy is a high-elevation climat that climbs the slope above the village of Morey-Saint-Denis

Drinking well now with another decade of upside if you have the patience

No sulfur was added to allow the juice to oxidize

La Chapelle de la Mission Haut-Brion Pessac-Leognan 2000 hide-gift-message A pure grain genever distilledLa 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