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2014 Chateau Haut-Bailly Cru Classe, Pessac-Leognan
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Critics Scores
Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
The 2014 Château Haut-Bailly is amazing. The wine entices with an almost opaque appearance and proceeds in serving up and traces of aromatic blue and black fruits, perfume, and flowers. The lasting finish is savory and delightful. One may be tempted to drink it sooner than later. Patience will have its rewards and yield a supremely delicious wine with a decade in the bottle. (Tasted: January 27, 2017, San Francisco, CA)
Wine Enthusiast
Initial tight acidity in this crisp wine gives way to smooth rich black fruits. This already has a fine balance with its ripe juiciness and delicious red-berry flavors. It is going to develop into a very fine wine. Drink from 2024.
Jeb Dunnuck
The 2014 Château Haut Bailly is a beauty and shows the best of the vintage in its charming, forward, complex bouquet of black cherries, kirsch, dried flowers, and black raspberries, with just a hint of building earthy minerality and tobacco. Pure silk on the palate, with medium to full body, ripe, present tannins, and a great mid-palate, it’s a rock star 2014 to enjoy over the coming two decades or so.
James Suckling
A very well-made, modern wine with ripe cherry and cassis notes but rather discrete oak. The bright fruit and lively acidity balance the moderately dry tannins very well, and the finish is long and quite complex. Compacted. Needs time to open. Beautiful.
Wine Spectator
This shows admirable density for the vintage, with a strong loamy echo amid the core of dark currant, fig and plum compote flavors. Loads of tobacco and tar details join in on the finish, while the fruit easily keeps pace. Rock-solid. Best from 2020 through 2035.
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2014 Haut Bailly has a charming, quite intense bouquet with layers of blackberry, raspberry coulis, black olive and melted tar scents that soar from the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin, well-judged acidity, harmonious and focused with superb density and precision towards the finish. This is a classy number and alongside Domaine de Chevalier, it is one of the standouts from the appellation in this vintage.
Decanter
Lovely restrained black fruit and pencil shavings on the nose, beautifully extracted, although the fruit is not quite as vibrant as in the best vintages of this excellent property. Good persistency, a supremely elegant take on the vintage, in the line of 2001. 66 Cabernet Sauvignon, 34 Merlot. A masterclass as ever in precision winemaking, and although there is 8 of press wine it gives weight without straining the structure. Denis Dubourdieu consultant here for last 17 years, since 1998.