Why this vintage
- 97/100 from Vinousand 4 other scores above 90/100.
- The 2019 vintage in Pessac-LéognanA hot end of summer after a rainy spring gave wines that hold ripeness and freshness together; the cabernets shine here.
Critic scores
- Vinous97
- Wine Enthusiast97
- Wine Advocate96
- Jeb Dunnuck96
- Decanter96
The 2019 vintage in Pessac-Léognan
Vintage benchmark: 96/100 (appellation benchmark, not a score for this wine)
Vintage character: A hot end of summer after a rainy spring gave wines that hold ripeness and freshness together; the cabernets shine here.
Overall reading of the year’s season across Pessac-Léognan. An estate can depart from it sharply, in frost or hail years, where two neighbours did not make the same vintage. What this particular wine actually gave is on its technical sheet and in the scores above.
Tasting
Charming Merlots and structured Cabernets. The wines are ripe, rich and aromatic. They offer balance, generosity as well as precision. 2019 is a wine of style and depth, a wine of balance, power and purity.
Blend of the 2019 vintage
- 56 % Cabernet Sauvignon
- 36 % Merlot
- 4 % Cabernet Franc
- 4 % Petit Verdot
Shares for this vintage, as recorded on the 2019 technical sheet. The vineyard itself is planted with 60 % cabernet sauvignon, 34 % merlot, 3 % cabernet franc, 3 % petit verdot — a vintage blend departs from the area under vine as the year dictates.
Winemaking
After a fine summer and an exceptional month of September, the harvest took place from September 23rd to October 10th in favorable conditions. A generous crop was handpicked by a high-spirited troop of cosmopolitan pickers. The sugar concentration of the grapes, their phenolic richness and a natural acidity are signs of a great vintage. The vinification took place at 24°C in order to preserve the perfect freshness and elegance despite the high degrees in alcohol.
Terroir
A Grand Cru Classé at the gates of Bordeaux, Château Haut-Bailly looks out majestically over a 30-hectare vineyard in a single block, established on one of the highest gravel rises of the left bank. It benefits from an excellent gradient of the slopes, effective drainage and well-distributed ditches that carry the water away in wet years. Of the three components of terroir, the soil is the most subtle: here it combines a soil of sands mixed with gravels that slipped down in the Quaternary era with a subsoil of falun, or petrified fossil stone, which is one of its major characteristics.
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Texts and documents 2019
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Visuals
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Sheet checked on September 28, 2026. Technical data: the estate’s VinCod sheets. Critic scores: sources cited above, with their date. Vintage benchmarks and character: Compagnie Médocaine’s own editorial read. Soils and relief, where shown: the Compagnie Médocaine’s parcel survey and the Mapbox/IGN terrain model.