Intense and powerful showing Plum, blackberry and smoke. Dense, flavory, medium to full bodied, just the right amount of acidity and a long balanced finish. Well done. NI:4, FI:23, FC:8, B:4, L:5
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The wine looks ruby colored. The legs are medium. There is no sediment in the bottle. It smells like strawberry, blackberry, forest floor, stoniness, medium toast, oak, vanilla and rose. It tastes like blackberry, strawberry, raspberry, plum, forest floor, stoniness, tobacco, bell pepper and cool/menthol. The body is medium. The wine has silky texture. The wine finishes medium. The wine has medium acidity.
A really nice wine for the price point. Very classic Ste Emillion characteristics.
92 - pretty darn good but nothing that blows my mind. Definitely a weekly drinking wine.
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Delicious from first pour nondecant. Ripe opulent juicy, napaesque but with good balance not too fruity great depth, tighten a bit after an hour. Great future but fun now.
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Quite modern-styled Bordeaux here; my first time trying this producer, and in this price range I prefer Sansonnet and Tour St Christophe. Good dark fruits but oak is very prominent at this stage. Some clay and mineral notes shows it is Bordeaux though, and not Napa. This could improve a good bit in 5-10 years time. Hold. (Decanted first night and followed over two days.)
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Dark in color, this sensuous, rich, flamboyant wine shoots from the glass with polished red and black fruits, licorice, espresso, minerality and dark cocoa. Concentrated, opulent and forward, this is one of the best vintages of Barde Haut ever produced! The wine blends 80% Merlot with 20% Cabernet Franc.
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Dark in color, the wine is loaded with licorice, truffle, smoke, and a background note of mint. Full-bodied, rich, dense and multi-layered, the wine exudes, dark, juicy, ripe, dark fruits on the nose and palate. The wine is made from a blend of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc and will be aged in 60% new, French oak barrels. 94-96 Pts
3/30/2024 - Dfortin9 Likes this wine: 94 Points
Intense and powerful showing Plum, blackberry and smoke. Dense, flavory, medium to full bodied, just the right amount of acidity and a long balanced finish. Well done. NI:4, FI:23, FC:8, B:4, L:5
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3/4/2024 - jmoon Likes this wine: 93 Points
Pretty darn good if you like fruit forward chunky solar wines - that’s where it is at the moment, and benefits from a decent decant.
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1/5/2024 - vino777 wrote: 94 Points
Magnificent.
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6/18/2023 - ashawswim20 wrote: 92 Points
The wine looks ruby colored. The legs are medium. There is no sediment in the bottle. It smells like strawberry, blackberry, forest floor, stoniness, medium toast, oak, vanilla and rose. It tastes like blackberry, strawberry, raspberry, plum, forest floor, stoniness, tobacco, bell pepper and cool/menthol. The body is medium. The wine has silky texture. The wine finishes medium. The wine has medium acidity.
A really nice wine for the price point. Very classic Ste Emillion characteristics.
92 - pretty darn good but nothing that blows my mind. Definitely a weekly drinking wine.
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6/14/2023 - jmoon Likes this wine: 94 Points
Delicious from first pour nondecant. Ripe opulent juicy, napaesque but with good balance not too fruity great depth, tighten a bit after an hour. Great future but fun now.
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6/9/2023 - richshoes Likes this wine: 93 Points
Dense still young with nice layers, sour and dark cherry, black raspberry...missing a little bit of fruit
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12/27/2022 - Jfsiegel Likes this wine: 95 Points
Best on the second day. Cherry and fig up front followed by chocolate and fig with velvety tannins on the mid before a sumptuously smoky finish
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10/19/2022 - Slammin Sammie Likes this wine: 92 Points
really wonderful grand cru
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7/8/2022 - Jozefs wrote: 92 Points
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2/10/2022 - Everything Ahead wrote: 90 Points
Quite modern-styled Bordeaux here; my first time trying this producer, and in this price range I prefer Sansonnet and Tour St Christophe.
Good dark fruits but oak is very prominent at this stage. Some clay and mineral notes shows it is Bordeaux though, and not Napa.
This could improve a good bit in 5-10 years time. Hold.
(Decanted first night and followed over two days.)
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6/18/2021 - Jozefs wrote: 92 Points
Early days...
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3/9/2021 - Jeff Leve wrote: 94 Points
Dark in color, this sensuous, rich, flamboyant wine shoots from the glass with polished red and black fruits, licorice, espresso, minerality and dark cocoa. Concentrated, opulent and forward, this is one of the best vintages of Barde Haut ever produced! The wine blends 80% Merlot with 20% Cabernet Franc.
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4/19/2019 - Jeff Leve wrote: 95 Points
Dark in color, the wine is loaded with licorice, truffle, smoke, and a background note of mint. Full-bodied, rich, dense and multi-layered, the wine exudes, dark, juicy, ripe, dark fruits on the nose and palate. The wine is made from a blend of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc and will be aged in 60% new, French oak barrels. 94-96 Pts
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