2022 CHÂTEAU HAUT BAILLY Cru Classé Pessac-Léognan Château Haut Bailly, Lea & Sandeman

CHÂTEAU HAUT BAILLY

2024 Cru Classé Pessac-Léognan

Grapes Cab Sauv, Petit Verdot, Cab Franc, Merlot
Colour Red
Origin France, Bordeaux
Village Pessac-Léognan
Classification Cru Classé

Savoury, precise and poised, with lovely texture, softly spoken with high floral aromatics, rose petals, peony, fine tannins, drawn out character, long slow build of tension through the palate, unrolling to show white truffle and mint leaf. Tannic grip, estate signature, more softly spoken than in recent vintages, but Haut-Bailly has proved over and over again that it is capable of delivering over the long term, and that it delivers excellence even in challenging vintages - an upscore potential in bottle. Harvest 18 September to 4 October, 30hl/h yield. Gabriel Vialard technical director. Drinking range: 2030 - 2045 Rating: 93 Jane Anson, www.janeanson.com (May 2025)


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58 Cabernet Sauvignon, 40 Merlot, 2 Cabernet Franc: 50% new oak for 16 months: 30 hl/ha: Harvest took place between 18 September and 4 October

Véronique Sanders’s nickname for the 2024 vintage is ‘Singing in the Rain’ – a red umbrella became the unofficial logo for this year! The humid, oceanic climate presented many challenges in 2024 at Haut-Bailly, and this is yet another elite estate that knuckled down and worked relentlessly in the vineyard, knowing that despite the trials and tribulations, it would all come good in the end. I encountered a rare sense of luxuriousness and textural silkiness in a handful of the finest wines in 2024, and Haut-Bailly is one such wine. I don’t often write the words ‘Bonnes-Mares’ about truly great Bordeaux, but there is more than a haunting, ethereal character about this wine that reminds me of the wilder, more densely packed Grand Cru wines from the Côte de Nuits. The perfume is heart-stopping, more complex and lifted than I can remember, and the fruit is mind-blowingly beautiful, combining levity and profound depth. Remarkably elongated and refined, there is an unhurried feel that promises the drinker everything will be revealed in the end, but in the meantime, layers of intrigue will be offered up metronomically over the coming decade. Every nuance will be worth waiting for. They will eventually combine to create a stunning landscape of glorious, velvety flavours detailed with roses, cherries and deeper, darker, wilder hedgerow notes. Formal tannins and louche acidity wait patiently until the last moment to greet you like long-lost friends, making 2024 Haut-Bailly an unmissable and uniquely compelling adventure. 19+/20 Rating: 19+ Matthew Jukes www.matthewjukes.com (May 2025)

The 2024 Haut-Bailly was picked from September 25 to October 4 and matured in 50% new oak, possibly with a shorter élevage. As usual, it deserves patience at this stage as it gradually opens and coheres with aeration. This has a perfumed bouquet built around redcurrant, cranberry and wild strawberry fruit. It's quite floral in style with finely delineated touches of freshly-rolled tobacco and wilted rose petal. The palate is creamy on the entry and velvety in texture, with finely chiseled, lace-like tannins. It is very well balanced with one of the few sensual vintages that you will find from this year. This will be much earlier drinking than other vintages, but that does not detract from what will be one of the most pleasurable 2024s to drink. Drinking range: 2030 - 2055 Rating: 93-95 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (May 2025)

A soft, light Haut-Bailly from this challenging year, with lots of red cherries, red berries, red bell peppers and fresh herbs. Quite approachable, with a medium body and soft-grained tannins. Well-judged soft extraction makes this likely approachable right after release. Not ambitious, but well balanced, juicy and refined. Brambly and lively. Early harvest? 58% cabernet sauvignon, 40% merlot and 2% cabernet franc. Rating: 93-94 James Suckling, www.jamessuckling.com (Apr 2025)

Château Haut Bailly

The now very reliable Pessac-Léognan estate of Haut Bailly was revived after its purchase by Belgian Daniel Sanders. He'd married into the Bordeaux wine trade in 1919, and formed a determination to buy Haut Bailly after tasting their awesome 1945. There was much work to do upon buying the estate, some of the vines were still ungrafted for instance, and the renovation was still not complete by the time Daniel's son took over in 1979. Véronique Sanders represents the latest generation to run the estate, albeit under the benign ownership of American Robert Wilmers who bought Haut Bailly in 1998 bringing more much needed investment, the fruits of which can be seen in the high quality of today's wines. The vineyards are planted to a fairly typical "Left Bank" mix of 64% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot and 6% Cabernet Franc.

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