Haut Bailly 1500ml

Renowned for its exceptional elegance, the Grand Vin is the fruit of a complex balance: elegant and tactile, powerful and supple, immediate and timeless. Each vintage is unique, but also adds to the lineage of Haut-Bailly wines, embodying the constancy of the estate’s terroir and style. 

The winemakers who have run Haut-Bailly have always shown the same unshakeable determination to take the iconic estate they have been entrusted to serve further and higher, with as much humility as tenacity. Haut-Bailly is now recognised in the inner circle of Bordeaux’s great wines as embodying the essence of a timeless style, in the face of changing fashions.

1990

Wine Advocate 90: While excellent, nearly outstanding, the 1990 Haut Bailly is not up to the quality level of recent vintages produced under the new ownership of American Robert Wilmers and his winemaker, Veronique Sanders. The complex 1990 offers up subtle yet persistent aromas of red currants, tobacco leaf, spice box, and smoke. This medium-bodied, fully mature wine exhibits sweetness as well as lushness, and is capable of lasting another decade.

Vinous 89: Tasted at Berry Brother & Rudd's vertical. The 1990 Haut-Bailly has a refined bouquet that is very similar to the bottle tasted in 2009, with touches of leather and beef stock infusing the black fruits that are being usurped by secondary aromas. With time in the glass, there is a faint mintiness beginning to develop. The palate is medium-bodied, loose-knit than the '95, with the tannins just showing a little more dryness. However, there is plenty of smoky, tobacco-infused, dusky black fruit to enjoy with a cedar note on the finish that just lacks the complexity of the '89 tasted alongside.