A beautiful moment to be drinking this wine as it edges towards tertiary flavours

Best from 2023 through 2043

The contours are more modern and the fruit leans towards the darker end of spectrum

but that period is down to several months from a full year the wine spent in small barrels up until 2001 or so

2009 and 1996 vintages

Haut Bailly Vintage:2023 A beautiful moment to beBeautifully balanced and concentrated, with Cabernet Sauvignon dominant in the fruit expression in terms of the controlled, elegant, savoury and totally moreish blackberry and cassis fruits. This remains extremely young, closed in on itself, not quite ready to reveal all its facets, but has the grip that suggests just how good this wine is, finishing up with layers of plum, slate and liquorice. Particularly late harvest in 2008 right through to