La Chapelle de la Mission Haut-Brion Pessac-Leognan 2000 OTHERREGION and flinty—a serious white with

and flinty—a serious white with mineral nuance

small mechanical grinder

creating a wine that feels both classic and wildly contemporary

three of which are vintage-dated

La Chapelle de la Mission Haut-Brion Pessac-Leognan 2000 OTHERREGION and flinty—a serious white withLa 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