Community Tasting Notes 29

• pavel_p Likes this wine: 92 points

  January 1, 2024 - Bottom neck fill. Very top of the cork still dry. A medium garnet with a translucent rim in the glass. Almost no browning. Wonderful nose: fresh slightly green notes, sous bois, cigar box. On the palate a quintessential, old school grave, leafy but still with good fruit concentration. Tannins resolved. Great Haut Bailly!

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• chatters wrote:

  December 25, 2022 - Christmas Day 2022 (My place, Kent Street): From Coravin. Note form November still applies here, from a weight perspective this is a little light for the stew…probably one to open with e.g. Steak Tartare (minus the Tabasco)

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• chatters wrote:

  November 29, 2022 - Coravin fun - Haut Bailly (My place, Kent Street): From Coravin. Initially quite herbal on the nose, a little smoky almost bonfire note leather, not much fruit left but, with time, a bit of baking spice and an almost cola note, smells quite fresh. And it's quite herbaceous on the palate with medium plus intensity, a little sourness (which may be adding that acidic impression), tiny balsamic note, talc textured tannins grate against the tongue, some red hued fruit, slight alcohol warmth on the finish. Not as nice as last tasting and probably time to tidy up with firm white fish in a buttery sauce...

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• dream Likes this wine: 92 points

  November 19, 2022 - Excellent bottle, tons of sediment. A nice touch of sweet aged fruit left here with a wonderful Graves smokiness that permeates the wine. Fully mature and fully into its tertiaries with a nice complex finish.

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• chatters Likes this wine:

  September 3, 2021 - Coravin fun - Haut Bailly (My place, Kent Street): From Coravin. Aromas of earth, pyrazine, blood, roast beef, hints of bramble and blackcurrant, smoky spices and clove, leather. With time a little raspberry/rhubarb note as well as Autumn leaves. On the palate it has juicy acidity, the pyrazine note with slightly smoky dark fruits with a rhubarb underpin. Tannins are silky but strangely mouth puckering. Travels very long with a little alcohol warmth. This is the pick of the 1978 Bordeaux's I've tried (not that i've tried that many)

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1978
• Type Red
• Producer Château Haut-Bailly
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Bordeaux
• SubRegion Graves
• Appellation Pessac-Léognan

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• In Cellars 139 (72%)
• Consumed 51 (26%)

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