2022 Château Haut-Bailly Cru Classé Graves

Château Haut-Bailly has a distinct style that combines classic with modern and elegance, finesse and softness with structure. The smoothness of the tannins provides elegant and complex aromas. Château Haut-Bailly can be kept for many years, but it is also a wonderful wine to drink now. This Château Haut-Bailly receives much praise from wine experts who agree that this Château Haut-Bailly offers complex pleasure and has a richness that is not aggressive but also not flashy. All these beautiful attributes that this wine has at its disposal mainly come from the selection process of the grapes and the landscape and the climate in which the grapes grow.

Experts in soil research have found that Haut Bailly has one of the finest terroirs in Pessac-Léognan. Great wines are created by the interplay between soil, location, climate and man. The wines have always been good but have improved even more in recent years. Haut-Bailly is known for its softness and silky texture. The wine has incredible potential in refined tannins and softly sweet, complex fruit nuances. The 2022 vintage was marked by extreme climatic conditions, but everything leads Haut Bailly to believe that this is the case announces, or foreshadows, the climate that we will encounter in the coming decades. What seems extraordinary today will become, if not the norm, then at least usual tomorrow. But also, the decisions that are made year after year about the management of the vineyard. The choice made at Haut-Bailly for sustainable viticulture by preserving an old vineyard takes on its full meaning under extreme conditions. The deep roots of the vines, due to their age and the work done on the soil, give them a remarkable capacity for resistance.

The months of September to November were warm and dry and the harvest started early in ideal conditions. From 7 to 14 September it was the turn of the Merlots, and from 19 to 27 September the Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot and Cabernet Sauvignon. The 2022 vintage is a blend of 56% Cabernet Sauvignon, 37% Merlot, 5% Petit-Verdot and 2% Cabernet Franc. The winery, inaugurated at the end of 2020, has been designed and developed to offer the best in terms of climate change. The new facilities, including cold rooms, a wide variety of vats for vinification per plot and an underground maturation cellar, allow Haut-Bailly to both preserve and refine the fruit and also to create wines that combine power and elegance, density and freshness. This 2022 vintage is therefore a double satisfaction. The satisfaction that they have produced a very good wine and the confidence that we will continue to produce it in the years to come.

FACT: Under the tab: Attachment you will find the official factsheet and we will send it to you digitally when you order this wine. Also worth mentioning that we buy the (Bordeaux) wines directly and never through intermediaries because then we do not know which journeys the wine has made and how it has been treated. The wines come from the cellars of the Chateau directly to our conditioned Warehouse in Dordrecht where all our wines are stored .