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There is a subtlety to this that strikes you immediately - gentle smoke, cold ash, tobacco, white truffle, brambled blackberry fruits, mint leaf, totally sublime, my favorite of the line up so far. It plays to the strengths of St Julien, and plays with nu...
The 1989 Gruaud Larose is evolving very slowly, and its impressively youthful structure and vibrant flavors auger very well for its future. Offering up aromas of sweet berry fruit, cigar wrapper, loamy soil and cedar, it's medium to full-bodied, with a ri...
Bottled in May 2024, the 2022 Gruaud Larose has turned out beautifully, wafting from the glass with aromas of dark berries, violets, vine smoke, pen ink and tar. Medium to full-bodied, dense and layered, it's rich and broad, with terrific depth at the cor...
The 2024 Gruaud Larose shows excellent potential, bursting with notes of cassis, pencil shavings, iris and violets. Medium to full-bodied, suave and seamless, it's ample and pure, with a precise, refined pro-life and good persistence on the finish. A blen...
The 2021 Haut-Bailly is incredibly poised, even if it is clearly a wine of reserve in this vintage. Its vertical build speaks of pure sophistication. Time in the glass brings out hints of dried herbs, menthol, licorice, pine, blackberry and underbrush. M...
The palate is quite brilliantly balanced, the tannins extremely fine and framing the slightly earthy black fruit laced with salt. To me, it is a less flamboyant and more terroir expressive Haut-Bailly that has an effortless allure and a sense of sophistic...
The 2020 Haut-Bailly has developed into an elegant, richly-textured wine
with all its elements in balance. Classy and polished to the core, the 2020
is a Haut-Bailly that favors finesse over power. It's a wine of extreme
precision and persistence more ...
The 2023 Haut-Bailly was picked from September 11 to 29 at
40.5hL/ha. It is being raised in 50% new oak for a planned 14 months,
plus another three in vats. Véronique Sanders told me that there is 6%
vin de presse in the blend this year. This has a beg...
The 2023 Haut-Batailley is another impressive wine from this Chateau. There's plenty of the typical dark fruit and overall breadth that is such a signature, but the tannins show greater finesse than in some prior years—a very positive evolution that conti...
