2010 Château Haut-Bailly Pessac-Léognan Bordeaux France Wine Tasting Note

Stunning in every sense of the word. From start to finish, this is a complete tasting experience. The wine opens with a complex array of scents, tobacco leaf, cherries, currants, cigar box, smoke, cedar, plums, and forest floor. Full-bodied, concentrated, and still holding on to its fresh-faced youth, there is a beautiful sense of purity and symmetry on the palate that carries all the way through to the finish. Drink from 2025-2055.

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Just a super wine, you can smell this from across the room. Still young, there is volume, complexity, intensity, layers of fruits, silky tannins and a finish that does quit until the layers of fruit have done their job. This is a stunner. Because it is so good, you can drink it young, but if you have the patience to wait another decade, this will really be a knock out!

Stunning in every sense, it's hard to say what part of the experience I liked best. Aromatically complex, with its cocoa, smoke, black cherry, thyme and truffle notes leading the way. The full bodied, concentrated wine feels like silk and velvet as it coats your palate, mouth, teeth and gums. Intense, yet elegant, focused, fresh and pure, the finish must have stuck with me for over 50 seconds! This stunner just keeps getting better and better. If you have over a case, pop a cork and give it a few hours of air. Else, wait another decade. If this gets any better, and it probably will, it should be worth 100 Pts if it continues to age and evolve in the same manner.

The wine coats your palate with fruit, feels like silk and velvet, offers layers of smoky, ripe fruits with a real purity to the berries and the finish just goes on and on. Young, but already great. 10 more years will make this rock, but I'm not waiting a decade to pop another cork!

Now we're talking! Holy Moly... This is so good it's almost off the charts. It's rich, concentrated and lush. The silk and velvet textures are a treat. The fruit retains a beautiful sense of purity. Everything is in balance and harmony. Wines this good can be tasted young. And you can this comment to the bank. This will be great when its developed.

Stunning in every way. As good as this is now, it's going to be even better with a decade of cellaring. With its fabulous levels of concentration, perfectly ripe fruit and silky textures, this is going to be a treat if you can wait a bit.

Another strong showing for this stunning wine. Packed with ripe, smoky dark berries, earth, spice and truffle, the wine is powerful, concentrated and deep, yet, refined, elegant and perfectly in balance. In the years to come, this is only going to improve with age as it develops additional layers of complexity and refinement. 97 Pts

This has truly developed well since bottling. The wine is deeper, richer and more polished since first tasted in 2011. The complex nose pops with caramel, espresso bean, blackberries and earth. Intense, polished, lush and deep, the wine finishes with a beautiful sensation of purity and silk. It’s going to be fun to compare this blend of 64% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot and 6% Cabernet Franc with the 2009 over the next few decades. When I first tasted this wine in barrel, I had conversations with Veronique Sanders, where she believed the wine was better than her sublime 2009. I did not agree at the time. After tasting 2010 Haut Bailly in bottle, I now agree with Veronique, it's not only the better wine, it's the finest wine the estate has ever produced!

From a blend of 62% Cabernet Sauvignon, 36% Merlot and the rest Cabernet Franc, this dark, purple tinted wine offers an array of fresh, jammy black raspberry, licorice, truffle, smoke, coffee, tobacco, earth and spice aromas. Powerful, tannic and structured, there is purity in the fruit. The wine ends with layers of ripe, blackberry and black cherry fruits. This will be a very long lived wine. . The wine increased in price from the 2009 and was released for 89 Euros. 96-97

2010 Haut Bailly From 62% Cabernet Sauvignon, 36% Merlot and 2% Cabernet Franc, a blend similar to what they used in 2009, the 2010 vintage is the product of low yields. For a comparison, 2009 was 46 hectoliters per hectare. In 2010, due to the draught and problems with the Merlot flowering, yields were reduced to 37 hectares per hectoliter. Low yields and weather allowed the wine to reach 13.9 % ABV, which is slightly higher than the 13.75 the property enjoyed in 2009. . Inky purple in color, with pungent aromas of smoke, licorice, truffle, spice, ash, tobacco and blackberry liqueur, the wine is concentrated, deep, rich and opulent in texture. With palate staining fruit, layers of ripe, velvety tannins and a long, pure, cassis and blackberry finish, this wine offers strong competition for the 2009. Veronique Sanders thinks the 2010 is a better wine. I am not sure I agree. But I do know, it’s going to be a lot of comparing 2010 with 2009, 2008, 2006 and 2005 over the next few decades. 95-97 Pts