Warmes, dunkles Purpurrot im Glas, dicke Kirchenfenster. Das Bukett merlotbetont, dichter Duft nach Himbeeren, Brombeeren, schwarzen Johannisbeeren, mediterrane Kräuter, Vanille, Tabak, schöne Schnüffelnase! Am Gaumen konzentriert und tiefgründig. Vielschichtige Frucht, feine palsamische Noten und mineralische Anklänge. Das Tannin ist gut eingebunden aber noch jugendlich und braucht noch ein paar Jahre zum schmelzen. Sehr lange, anhaltendes, fruchtbetontes Finale. Trinkreife -2050. dekantieren.
Bewertungen
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95 Punkte Robert Parker
Wine Advocate Jul 2017: "The 2005 Haut Bailly is rapidly turning into a glorious wine. You instantly fall in love with the purity on the nose, luscious red cherries, wild strawberry and blueberry. This is still youthful and beautifully defined. The palate is medium-bodied with quite a structured opening like many in this vintage. It exerts a gentle grip in the mouth, quite tensile and linear and perhaps just tightening up a tad toward the finish. It is biding its time, but it will repay those who cellar this outstanding 2005 for another four or five years."
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97 Punkte Falstaff
Peter Moser Jan 2023: "Dunkles Rubingranat, tiefer Kern, violette Reflexe, zarte Ockerrandaufhellung. Nuancen von Velours, Kräuter, Lakritze, feiner Cassiston klingt an, ein Hauch von ätherischen Ölen wie Minze und Eukalyptus, dunkles Nugat, süßer Tabak, facettenreiches Bukett. Saftig, dunkelbeerig, reif, mit seidigen Tanninen ausgestattet, zeigt exzellente Frische im Abgang, hat nun eine erste Trinkreife erreicht, verfügt über weiteres Reifepotenzial. (trinken, lagern + 25)"
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95 Punkte James Suckling
"This shows a great purity of fruit; firm and direct notes of raspberries, strawberries, and blackberries that open to intense notes of fresh flowers. Full-bodied, with velvety tannins. This wine is tight and long -- you know this is good immediately. Pull the cork after 2016."
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97 Punkte Decanter
"A near perfect growing season resulted in alcohols of 14% for the Merlots and 13% for the Cabernet Sauvignons, unheard of at Haut-Bailly. This is starting to show tertiary aromatics and yet holding on to its youthful character, absolutely teetering on the edge between youth and age. The tension of this moment is something to savour, and I want to both suggest that you drink it now, and that you put it away for another decade. Hints of leather, cold ash, cassis, pepper, saffron, all with confident tannins that embrace the fruit without making a big deal of it. The definition of elegant Pessac, as with 2001 vintage, but here with another level of concentration. Just so drinkable while complex and effortless."
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98 Punkte Jeb Dunnuck
"The 2005 Château Haut-Bailly is the real deal and unquestionably the finest wine here since the 2000. Stunning notes of blackcurrants, smoked tobacco, loamy earth, saddle leather, and flowers all define this rich, full-bodied, concentrated Haut-Bailly, which has sweet, mouth-coating tannins, a stacked mid-palate, and just a broad, expansive, incredibly sexy profile that just begs to be drunk. Bordeaux lovers need to have this beauty in their cellars! I love it today, yet it has another two decades of longevity."
