Château Haut-Bailly 2025
Pessac-Léognan Grand Cru Classé
Bordeaux, France
Regular price£384.00
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Arriving: Mid 2028
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| Style: Red | Packaging: OWC |
| ABV: 13.5% | Closure: Cork |
| Organic: | Drink from: 2035 |
| Biodynamic: | Drink to: 2060 |
| Grapes: 55% Cabernet Sauvignon; 36% Merlot; 5% Cabernet Franc; 4% Petit Verdot | |
Critic scores
96-98 NM, 95-97 AG, 98-99 JS, 97-99 JD, 96-98 LPB, 98-100 JA, 96-98 DB
Critic reviews
"The 2025 Haut-Bailly was picked between September 4 and 22 at 26.6 hl/ha, raised in 50% new oak. Similar to elsewhere this year, I found a distinct difference between the Grand and Deuxième Vins, this possessing greater delineation and complexity. A mixture of brambly red fruit, briar, a touch of cassis and orange rind that is beautifully delineated. The palate is exquisite: very fine tannins, tangible minéralité, very cohesive and focused, with a very complex, peppery finish that goes on and on and on. Svelte, harmonious and tender, this ranks amongst the best vintages from Haut-Bailly in recent years."
Neal Martin, May 2026, Vinous.com
"The 2025 Haut-Bailly is fabulous. Here, too, the purity of the fruit is remarkable. Dried herbs, crushed flowers, blood orange, pomegranate, mint and star anise give the 2025 a gorgeous and palpable sense of exoticism. The 2025 impresses with its elegance and finesse. Floral and savory overtones linger on the clean, supremely polished finish. Very fine."
Antonio Galloni, April 2026, Vinous.com
"A beautiful fruit to this delicate and refined wine. The tannins are perfectly integrated into the wine and almost give it a pinot texture. The finest silk. It’s medium-bodied with precise and focused fruit and an endless finish. The exceptional harmony of this young wine makes you want to drink it. 55% cabernet sauvignon, 36% merlot, 5% cabernet franc and 4% petit verdot. 13.3% alcohol. pH 3.67."
James Suckling, May 2026, JamesSuckling.com
"Super slow and steady expansion as it goes through the palate, this absolutely makes you smile and is right up at the top of my expectations for how Haut-Bailly would perform in this often-conflicting vintage. Beautiful, crushed rose petals, wet stones, iris flowers, squid ink, shows finesse but also generosity, a wine with so many dimensions and layers to experience. Sit back, give it a good 6 to 8 years in bottle, then get ready to celebrate. 55% in first wine, 50% new oak, 3.6ph. harvest September 4 to 22."
Jane Anson, April 2026, JaneAnson.com
"(Pessac-Léognan; 55% Cabernet Sauvignon; 36% Merlot; 5% Cabernet Franc; 4% Petit Verdot; a final yield of 28 hl/ha; 13.5% alcohol; tasted at the property before an extensive vertical with Veronique Sanders; Axel Marchal is the consultant). Much more radiant, more lifted, more aerial and also more substantial and more vibrant than the already strikingly impressive Haut Bailly II. More graphite than cedar at this early stage, but both will coarse through the plump, plush dark berry and stone fruits that soar from the glass in time. Here the peppery notes are a little more subtle and greener. Candlewax and patchouli, a little hint of incense. This is strikingly vivid again in the mouth, with great intensity ratcheted up by the relatively narrow frame the wine takes from the attack. The cassis comes through with aeration in the mouth, bringing additional lift and freshness and then we get to the layered plateau of silken textured fruit that conveys us to a distant horizon. Deeply impressive and unlike any other wine of the appellation."
Colin Hay, May 2026, DrinksBusiness.com
Neal Martin, May 2026, Vinous.com
"The 2025 Haut-Bailly is fabulous. Here, too, the purity of the fruit is remarkable. Dried herbs, crushed flowers, blood orange, pomegranate, mint and star anise give the 2025 a gorgeous and palpable sense of exoticism. The 2025 impresses with its elegance and finesse. Floral and savory overtones linger on the clean, supremely polished finish. Very fine."
Antonio Galloni, April 2026, Vinous.com
"A beautiful fruit to this delicate and refined wine. The tannins are perfectly integrated into the wine and almost give it a pinot texture. The finest silk. It’s medium-bodied with precise and focused fruit and an endless finish. The exceptional harmony of this young wine makes you want to drink it. 55% cabernet sauvignon, 36% merlot, 5% cabernet franc and 4% petit verdot. 13.3% alcohol. pH 3.67."
James Suckling, May 2026, JamesSuckling.com
"Super slow and steady expansion as it goes through the palate, this absolutely makes you smile and is right up at the top of my expectations for how Haut-Bailly would perform in this often-conflicting vintage. Beautiful, crushed rose petals, wet stones, iris flowers, squid ink, shows finesse but also generosity, a wine with so many dimensions and layers to experience. Sit back, give it a good 6 to 8 years in bottle, then get ready to celebrate. 55% in first wine, 50% new oak, 3.6ph. harvest September 4 to 22."
Jane Anson, April 2026, JaneAnson.com
"(Pessac-Léognan; 55% Cabernet Sauvignon; 36% Merlot; 5% Cabernet Franc; 4% Petit Verdot; a final yield of 28 hl/ha; 13.5% alcohol; tasted at the property before an extensive vertical with Veronique Sanders; Axel Marchal is the consultant). Much more radiant, more lifted, more aerial and also more substantial and more vibrant than the already strikingly impressive Haut Bailly II. More graphite than cedar at this early stage, but both will coarse through the plump, plush dark berry and stone fruits that soar from the glass in time. Here the peppery notes are a little more subtle and greener. Candlewax and patchouli, a little hint of incense. This is strikingly vivid again in the mouth, with great intensity ratcheted up by the relatively narrow frame the wine takes from the attack. The cassis comes through with aeration in the mouth, bringing additional lift and freshness and then we get to the layered plateau of silken textured fruit that conveys us to a distant horizon. Deeply impressive and unlike any other wine of the appellation."
Colin Hay, May 2026, DrinksBusiness.com