Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The 2017 Haut-Bailly is composed of 60% Cabernet Sauvignon, 32% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc and 4% Petit Verdot. Very deep garnet-purple colored, it has a wonderfully spicy nose of cinnamon stick, cloves, anise and fenugreek with core of roses, warm blueberries, black forest cake and black raspberries plus hints of underbrush and iron ore. Medium to full-bodied with firm, ripe, grainy tannins, it has oodles of freshness and great finesse, continuing bright and energetic on the long, minerally finish.

James Suckling

Blackberry, walnut, iodine, and sandalwood aromas follow through to a full body, round and juicy tannins and an intense, flavorful finish. This shows richness with structure. Excellent 2017. Try after 2023.

Wine Enthusiast

VertdeVin

The nose is elegant, fine, racy and offers a very beautiful definition, a beautiful precision as well as richness (but with a very beautiful finesse). It reveals notes of fleshy strawberry, blackberry and small notes of crushed cassis combined with fine touches of blueberry, Bourbon vanilla, toasted, graphite and discreet hints of nutmeg, chocolate and spices. The palate is fruity, well-balanced, elegant, racy and offers juiciness, an acidulous frame, tension, precision, a fine suavity, a beautiful finesse of structure, power as well as a very beautiful finesse of the fat. On the palate this wine expresses notes of Boysenberry, graphite / Graves (racy minerality), cassis, raspberry and small notes of cherry associated with a discreet touch of juicy / crunchy blueberry as well as toasted hints, vanilla, nutmeg and spices. Tannins are elegant and structuring. Good length.

Anthocyanes - Yohan Castaing