Château La Mission Haut-Brion 2020 vs Echézeaux Grand Cru, Domaine du Clos Frantin 2012
Compare current tracked prices, stockists and core specifications. Echézeaux Grand Cru, Domaine du Clos Frantin 2012 currently starts £9.70 lower.
| Availability | In stock | In stock |
|---|---|---|
| Best current price | £290.30 | £280.60 |
| Current stockists | 1 merchant | 1 merchant |
| Producer | Château La Mission Haut Brion | Domaine du Clos Frantin |
| Style | Red | Red |
| Grape | Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc | Pinot Noir |
| Size | 750ml | 750ml |
| Where to buy |
Château La Mission Haut-Brion 2020
This wine is offered in individual wooden cases La Mission Haut-Brion sits directly across the road from its more famous neighbour, yet it has never played second fiddle — not really. This is Pessac-Léognan at its most serious: a wine of iron, smoke, and extraordinary depth that comes from some of the finest gravel over clay soils in all of Graves. The 2020 vintage was a genuinely great year in Bordeaux, warm and concentrated but with enough freshness to keep everything taut, and La Mission made the most of it. Cabernet Sauvignon leads, with Merlot and a whisper of Cabernet Franc providing weight and perfume.
Echézeaux Grand Cru, Domaine du Clos Frantin 2012
Neal Martin comments that Maison Bichot (owner of the domaine) can make “ really quite delicious, complex wines that often surprise people in blind tastings when not swayed by the label. ” We have always selected cuvées which offer comparable quality at a more attractive price than a number of big names - here you’ll find real value and drinking pleasure. Domaine du Clos Frantin is located at the heart of the Côte de Nuits in a beautiful 18th century estate in Nuits-Saint-Georges. Over 50% of their 7.3 hectares of vineyards are Premier and Grand Cru sites, all farmed organically since 2018. The domaine has the largest plantings of Vosne-Romanée’s top Premier Cru “Les Malconsorts”, one of the first in line for elevation to Grand Cru status, yet it remains a fiftieth the cost of a bottle of neighbour La Tâche!
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