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Haut Bailly 2008
HED62682
75 cl
12.5%
£125.00
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Château Haut-Bailly 2008 is a full-bodied Left Bank Bordeaux from the Pessac-Léognan appellation. The 2008 vintage was a challenging but ultimately successful year that produced Bordeaux wines with a great sense of freshness and purity. This wine offers notes of redcurrant, black cherry and cedar, with nuances of tobacco and pencil shavings. The palate is elegant and well-structured, with a firm tannic backbone.
96 Jancis Robinson
A candidate for the -wine of the vintage,- the 2008 Haut-Bailly possesses incredible complexity. Tell-tale notes of lead pencil shavings, charcoal, damp earth, black cherries and black currants intermixed with a hint of subtle barbecue smoke are present in this classic, quintessential Graves. Medium-bodied with an emerging, precocious complexity, it is a super-pure, beautifully textured, long wine that can be drunk now or cellared for 20-25 years. Bravo!Robert Parker2nd May 2011
94 Jane Anson
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.Jane Anson11th September 2024
93 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.)Neal Martin1st February 2018
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