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The 1996 Château La Mission Haut-Brion is a brilliant, classically structured wine from a vintage heavily favoring Cabernet. It displays incredible focus, tension, and a firm architectural backbone. The bouquet is deep and intellectual, offering pure black cassis, intense graphite, black truffles, cedar, and the estate's signature earthy smoke. Medium to full-bodied, the palate is tightly coiled and energetic, driven by bright acidity and finely-grained, robust tannins. It has aged beautifully and will continue to evolve gracefully.