2023 Barde Haut
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Gorgeous black cherries, graphite, chalky minerality, and leafy tobacco all emerge from the 2023 Château Barde-Haut. It's deeply hued and has a ripe, layered, medium to full-bodied mouthfeel, beautiful purity and precision, ripe tannins, and plenty of that classic limestone-like minerality. Drink this ripe, textured, already accessible Saint-Emilion over the coming two decades. Drink 2026-2045.
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James Suckling
Neal Martin, Vinous
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The 2023 Barde-Haut is a plush, creamy wine. Black cherry, cloves, new leather, menthol and dried herbs all build in the glass. This broad, structured Saint-Émilion has a lot to offer. It's classic Barde-Haut in an easygoing, supple style that can be enjoyed with minimal cellaring.
The 2023 Barde-Haut has slightly darker fruit than I recall from barrel. Blackberry, touches of pencil shaving and light black pepper notes unfold from the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins, crisp and well-balanced, quite peppery in style, but it has developed a little more complexity on the finish in recent months. Promising.
The 2023 Château Barde-Haut is another healthy purple-hued 2023, and it has gorgeous aromatics of cassis, mulberries, spicey herbs, and spicy wood, with a hint of espresso. I love its purity, and it's medium to full-bodied, with fine tannins and terrific overall balance.