Château La Mission Haut-Brion
Like its famous neighbor, Château Haut-Brion, Château La Mission Haut-Brion has been making the finest Bordeaux wines for several centuries and always with the same high standards.
It was in the 16th century that the Lestonnac family created the estate and expanded the vineyard on the Arregedhuys parcel. It was then taken over and modified in 1682 by Lazarist priests, members of the Congregation of the Mission. At that time, Château La Mission Haut-Brion already enjoyed an excellent reputation. The work of the Lazarists aroused the enthusiasm of a Marshal-Duke of Richelieu who declared, "If God forbade drinking, would he have made this wine so good?"
Not without difficulty, the Château has crossed the centuries and survived all revolutions. In the 19th century, a family from New Orleans, the Chiapellas, acquired the estate and made its wines known across the Atlantic. The Clarence Dillon estate, which already owned the famous Pessac-Léognan estate, Château Haut-Brion, bought the estate from the Woltner family in 1983 and ran it for half a century. The wine estate has a richer and gravellier terroir than its neighbor. Even if the terroir is not exactly the same, it turns out that after tasting several vintages, the wines of the two Châteaux are quite similar. They have the same suppleness and originality in their smoky bouquet. However, the two cousins keep their own characters due to their terroirs and grape varieties, even if the same team is in charge of the vinification. It does so with the same high standards for both Châteaux.
