The purity of fruit in this white is phenomenal. It’s like looking through a thin, perfectly clear crystal. Aromas of sliced apples, lemons, fresh pineapples and lilacs. Full body but perfectly balanced between fruit and acidity. Mineral and intense. Lightly salty and bitter like a peach pit. Electrifying wine. Greatest white ever from here. It lasts for minutes on the palate. 73% sauvignon blanc and 27% sémillon.

(94-97 points) Pale straw-green. Lovely semillon aromas of white peach and beeswax complicated by lavender, jasmine and minerals. Multilayered and complex on the palate, showing more minerality to go with the very intense, pure flavors of peach, lemon and green fig. The sauvignon blanc really stands out on the long, deep finish. This very bright, focused wine is one of the stars of the vintage, red wines included. - Ian D'Agata

The 2011 Chateau La Mission Haut-Brion Blanc is a beauty! Giving up a medium gold color and exotic notes of lychee nut, pineapple, honeysuckle, and marmalade, this beauty hits the palate with full-bodied richness, a sexy, rounded, decadent texture, and vibrant acidity. The blend is 73% Semillon and 27% Sauvignon Blanc, and it should continue drinking beautifully for a least a decade.

Offers a subtle brioche frame, with paraffin, verbena, lemon zest, white peach and chamomile notes. Gains steam through the finish, delivering a light kiss of toast. Long and alluring, this shows a white Burgundy-like ability to age, gaining richness and hints of white truffle along the way. Drink now through 2026. – JM

Cantaloupe, honeysuckle and lemon zest scents grab you before you find the rich, citrus and sweet grapefruit center. The wine finishes with a long, zesty, candied lemon and stone note. Read more at:https://www.thewinecellarinsider.com/search-wine-tasting-notes/?szSearch=2011%20la%20mission

A few years ago, one hectare of semillon here was grubbed up and replanted to sauvignon blanc. 2011 is the first vintage to include that young vine sauvignon blanc fruit in the La Mission Blanc. This is the ripest white wine I encountered from this vintage, at a heady 14.6 percent alcohol. The nose is deep, pretty and very suave in its mélange of grapefruit, fresh fig, citrus peel, cut grass, complex soil tones and vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, pure and impressively complex on the finish, with a very good core, but a finish that shows some of its heady octane as uncovered alcohol. The heat on the backend is pretty minor and I expect many people will not even notice it, but it suggests strongly that drinking this tasty and complex wine in its youth will be obligatory. I wonder what was the alcohol level on the brilliant 1964 Laville Haut Brion I drank a short time ago- 11.5 percent? But, those days are gone forever- I should just let them go... The 2011 La Mission Blanc is very good juice for early drinking.

27.1% Sauvignon Blanc, 72.9% Sémillon. Clear and citrusy on the nose, zesty and aromatic – grapefruit and greengage. A little less intense in the middle perhaps, or maybe it seems so because the attack and finish are powerful. So much spice, it almost feels like spritz. Lovely creamy texture and very rich, hiding the acidity though it is clearly brightly there. A real fine spine down the middle. Really long and so not ready to drink. 17.5/20 (JH)