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Chateau Haut-Bailly 2024
Standard - 75cl
ETA: +2 years
- Vintage2024
- ColourRed
- ProducerChateau Haut-Bailly
- CountryFrance
- RegionBordeaux
- Sub RegionPessac-Leognan
- DesignationAOP
- Bottle SizeStandard - 75cl
- ABV13.5
- LWIN10111912024
Wine Critic Reviews
Véronique Sanders’s nickname for the 2024 vintage is ‘Singing in the Rain’ – a red umbrella became the unofficial logo for this year! The humid, oceanic climate presented many challenges in 2024 at Haut-Bailly, and this is yet another elite estate that knuckled down and worked relentlessly in the vineyard, knowing that despite the trials and tribulations, it would all come good in the end. I encountered a rare sense of luxuriousness and textural silkiness in a handful of the finest wines in 2024, and Haut-Bailly is one such wine. I don’t often write the words ‘Bonnes-Mares’ about truly great Bordeaux, but there is more than a haunting, ethereal character about this wine that reminds me of the wilder, more densely packed Grand Cru wines from the Côte de Nuits. The perfume is heart-stopping, more complex and lifted than I can remember, and the fruit is mind-blowingly beautiful, combining levity and profound depth. Remarkably elongated and refined, there is an unhurried feel that promises the drinker everything will be revealed in the end, but in the meantime, layers of intrigue will be offered up metronomically over the coming decade. Every nuance will be worth waiting for. They will eventually combine to create a stunning landscape of glorious, velvety flavours detailed with roses, cherries and deeper, darker, wilder hedgerow notes. Formal tannins and louche acidity wait patiently until the last moment to greet you like long-lost friends, making 2024 Haut-Bailly an unmissable and uniquely compelling adventure.
- Reviewer Name: Matthew Jukes
Deep garnet-purple colored. Comes bounding out with exuberant notes of black cherries and fresh black currants, plus hints of violets, dark chocolate, and menthol with a waft of crushed rocks. The medium-bodied palate is coated with bright blackberry flavors, supported by soft, silky tannins and plenty of freshness, finishing long and perfumed.
- Reviewer Name: Lisa Perrotti-Brown
The Grand Vin 2024 Château Haut-Bailly is a blend of 58% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Merlot, and 2% Cabernet Franc that will spend 18 months in 50% new oak. It's an incredibly elegant, seamless Haut-Bailly, offering perfumed red and black fruits, spring flowers, spice, and loamy earth. These carry to a medium-bodied Pessac-Léognan with a layered, pure mouthfeel, ultra-fine tannins, and a great finish. As always, it's not the biggest or richest wine in the vintage, but it shines for its finesse and elegance.
- Reviewer Name: Jeb Dunnuck
The 2024 Haut-Bailly was picked from September 25 to October 4 and matured in 50% new oak, possibly with a shorter élevage. As usual, it deserves patience at this stage as it gradually opens and coheres with aeration. This has a perfumed bouquet built around redcurrant, cranberry and wild strawberry fruit. It's quite floral in style with finely delineated touches of freshly-rolled tobacco and wilted rose petal. The palate is creamy on the entry and velvety in texture, with finely chiseled, lace-like tannins. It is very well balanced with one of the few sensual vintages that you will find from this year. This will be much earlier drinking than other vintages, but that does not detract from what will be one of the most pleasurable 2024s to drink.
- Reviewer Name: Antonio Galloni
The 2024 Haut-Bailly is an elegant, classy wine. Soft, sensual contours lend notable charm. The 2024 is an especially aromatic, perfumed Haut-Bailly. Its mid-weight structure is best described as Burgundian, for lack of a better term. Silky tannins frame it all in style. Readers should expect a decidedly understated, quiet Haut-Bailly.
- Reviewer Name: Neal Martin