Parde Haut Bailly

Parde Haut BaillyThe 2020 Haut Bailly II opens in the glass with aromas of plums, minty cassis, sweet soil tones and pencil shavings. Medium to full bodied, with a sweet core of fruit framed by powdery tannins, it's a nicely balanced effort that will reward a bit of patience.

A deft application of wood frames the overtly floral-suffused nose of petrol

He now lives it full-time

menthol and wood toast where additional breadth is present in the form of wet stone and spices

A brooding and very reserved but highly complex nose features notes of dried flowers

alcoholic and packed to the gills with incredibly sweet

Full-bodied and rich

intensely-spiced tropical fruits

It’s hard to say if this will clean up or not

but I believe that what he calls “fluke” is really intuition

The sleek and almost painfully intense large-scaled flavors possess evident muscle on the driving

dark raspberry

Rich on the attack