Château Haut Bailly, Cru Classé, Pessac Léognan
    Château Haut Bailly

    Château Haut Bailly, Cru Classé, Pessac Léognan, 2008

    94/100
    Inside Bordeaux
    93/100
    Vinous
    Available Vintages
    Broking
    1. 2008

      12x75cl

      DP

      £905.47

    Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

    This is another Pessac property which has been making consistently brilliant wines since the millennium. The beautiful nose of sweet red and black wild berries, violets, black cherries and minerals leads into a concentrated cool fruit attack which possesses enormous intensity yet retains a lightness and finesse. This is a seriously polished, structured, classic wine; one for the purists.

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    Critic Reviews

    94/100
    Jane Anson,
    Inside Bordeaux
    Precision, clarity, tannins are fully present and still towards the front of the mouth. Cassis and blackberry fruits dominante, with waves of bitter chocolate and cocoa bean, this is young and has plenty of time ahead to soften further. Like so often wth Haut-Bailly, its charms are in what is happening under the surface, the layers of subtle flavours and aromatics that steal up on you and keep you engaged. Harvest September 25 to October 23, 60% new oak. Denis Dubourdieu consultant.
    drinking window 2024 - 2044
    date of review 09/2024
    93/100
    Neal Martin,
    Vinous
    The 2008 Haut Bailly has long been one of the knockout wines of the vintage. Now at ten years of age it retains its youthful appearance. It has a stunning bouquet with billowing, pure blackberry and bilberry fruit tinged with brine and iodine, very well defined and one of the most intense you will find in 2008. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin. This feels lithe and silky smooth in the mouth: intense black fruit, a splash soy and a more structured finish. Just superb. (Tasted at the château and at BI Wine & Spirit’s annual vertical tasting.)
    drinking window 2018 - 2040
    date of review 02/2018

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    Specifications

    Country:
    France
    Region:
    Bordeaux
    Appellation:
    Pessac Léognan
    style:
    Red Wine
    Grape Variety:
    Cab Sauvignon Merlot
    abv:
    13%

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