2017 Château Barde-Haut

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 91.9 points

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  4/27/2021 - La Cave d'Argent Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Barde-Haut's 2017 is an opaque ruby blend of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc. This particular bottle was Vinturi-decanted and allowed more than three hours in decanter prior to tasting. Loaded with black currants, dark plums, licorice, lavender and allspice, it is a medium-to-full-bodied, fresh red with beautifully integrated oak, seamless alcohol (14.5%) and plentiful fine-grained tannins. Dense on the mid-palate, it proceeds to a lengthy, iron-laden finish. Don't let this wine's elegance fool you...there is serious underlying structure that will lead to further development and significant longevity. Drink 2024-2037.

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  11/22/2020 - Andre Brattland wrote: 90 Points

  Richer and more powerful aromas with sweet plums, vanilla sugar, leather, salt and mocha. Good full-bodied and pronounced juicy wine with a coarser mouthfeel on the fruit with plums, stones, perfume and exotic spices. Good juiciness, perhaps lacking a little character in the vintage. But it is a good wine.

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  11/16/2020 - Jeff Leve wrote: 93 Points

  This is developing right on course. The wine is richly textured, round, lush and even now, you can already enjoy the smoke, licorice, black cherry, wet earth and floral sensations. As good as this is today, if you can hold off for another 3-5 years, it should be even better!

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  4/26/2018 - Jeff Leve wrote: 93 Points

  Floral characteristics kick off the soiree. From there you move to an introductory waltz of cocoa, plums, cherry, licorice and a background note of mint. Fresh, juicy, supple and long, there is a lot to lie here with the perfectly ready fruits giving it lift in the finish. I am also digging the less oaky approach in the aging.

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