1988 Château Haut-Bailly

Community Tasting Notes (51) Avg Score: 91.2 points

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  7/8/2023 - Psdycp wrote: 92 Points

  Very fragrant leathery, earth, smoked clove and dried mixed herbs on the nose. Palate echoed the nose with just a touch more toasty spices than what the nose suggests. Silky texture. Super fine tannins. Good depth of complex tertiary flavours on a medium-bodied mid-palate. Rounded and supple structure, leading to a smooth, fresh and gentle finish. At its peak now and should continue to hold for the next few years.

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  11/29/2022 - chatters wrote:

  Coravin fun - Haut Bailly (My place, Kent Street): From Coravin. Medium minus intensity aromas show red and black fruit, savoury spices, leather, slight autumnal notes and a touch of farmyard on the nose. Medium plus intensity acidity with red and black fruits showing as raspberry backed by brambles, a little plum stone bitterness and some blackcurrant sweetness, tannins are silky and near resolved. Long. Okay.

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  9/18/2021 - caesar77 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Opened and poured. Opaque red earth in color. Tannins were still grippy upon opening; and the fruit, while present, was a bit muted. What blew my mind a bit was, this wine still needed ~15 mins in the glass to breathe and show itself. The tannins melted into sublime silkiness and the fruit popped into a pungent bouquet of plums, strawberries and green leaf. On the palate, it was smooth, medium to heavy weight expressing fruitti di bosco and savory herbs with a sweet earthy finish that went on and on. An absolute masterclass in wine built to age. Highly recommended if you can find it!

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  9/3/2021 - chatters wrote:

  Coravin fun - Haut Bailly (My place, Kent Street): From Coravin. Autumnal, red berries and blackcurrant, rotting leaves, leather, earthy spices, a sense of 'wetness'. With time it gets more 'polished', the fruit comes out a little more and is joined by wild plums. Wetly juicy, savoury, the fruit is a little muted (though there is a core of blackcurrant sweetness), tannins are leathery and coat the palate. The fruit carries through on the finish. Okay.

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  8/18/2021 - Barath45 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Nose: Massive autumn notes of leaves falling of trees in the forest. Not much else, but a great nose!
  
  Taste: After getting air, it opened up and revealed same autumn notes with a mature, rounded feel in the mouth, delicious wine and well worth it. No fruit isch left, but it had that fullbodied, mature mouthfeel of a mature Graves in it's prime.

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