92+

Stephen Tanzer

Vinous

Good bright medium ruby. Deep aromas of plum, currant, tobacco, mocha and menthol. Superripe and rich but with superb ripe acidity and firm tannins currently keeping the fruit and mineral elements under wraps. Just this side of severe today: here's a 2005 that appears already to have shut down in the bottle. Best today on the back end, where the wine really spreads out horizontally to saturate the palate. I'd give it a good 12 years of aging; it should be very long-lived. Classy, sharply chiseled Haut-Bailly with noteworthy elegance. Mai 2008

95

Neal Martin

Robert Parker/Wine Advocate

The 2005 Haut Bailly is rapidly turning into a glorious wine. You instantly fall in love with the purity on the nose, luscious red cherries, wild strawberry and blueberry. This is still youthful and beautifully defined. The palate is medium-bodied with quite a structured opening like many in this vintage. It exerts a gentle grip in the mouth, quite tensile and linear and perhaps just tightening up a tad toward the finish. It is biding its time, but it will repay those who cellar this outstanding 2005 for another four or five years. Juli 2017

98

Jeb Dunnuck

Jeb Dunnuck

The 2005 Château Haut-Bailly just continues to drink brilliantly, with a massive, rich, full-bodied style as well as the château’s inherent sense of elegance and finesse. Ripe red and black fruits, smoked tobacco, graphite, saddle leather, and floral notes all define this beauty, and it has flawless balance, ripe yet perfectly integrated tannins, and just a regal, seamless, utterly compelling profile that is such a joy to drink today. It has another two decades of prime drinking ahead of it. 06/2024

95

James Suckling

James Suckling

This shows a great purity of fruit; firm and direct notes of raspberries, strawberries, and blackberries that open to intense notes of fresh flowers. Full-bodied, with velvety tannins. This wine is tight and long -- you know this is good immediately. Pull the cork after 2016. April 2012