2019 Barde-Haut, St-Emilion (Pre-Arrival)
SKU #1480601
94-96 points
Jeb Dunnuck
Beautiful black cherry fruits, violets, spring flowers, graphite, and ample minerality emerge from the 2019 Château Barde-Haut. Medium to full-bodied, it offers beautifully integrated chocolatey oak, that classic sense of minerality that you always find in these limestone soils, and a great finish. It has the vintage's purity and elegance as well as plenty of building tannins. In the same mold as the 2016, this is going to be a stunning value in the vintage that will keep for 20-30 years.
(6/2020)
93-95 points
Vinous
The 2019 Barde-Haut has a not dissimilar bouquet to the excellent Poesia, vivacious and intense with black cherries, blueberry, vanilla pod and raspberry that likewise burst from the glass. Lovely purity here. The palate is very well balanced with supple tannins, a fine line of acidity, full of tension and poise with a detailed, cedar and graphite tinged finish. This is a superb Barde-Haute that will give 20+ years of drinking pleasure. (NM)
(6/2020)
92-94 points
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2019 Barde-Haut comes skipping out of the glass with bright, cheery black plums, Morello cherries, black raspberries and mulberries scents plus suggestions of dusty soil, cinnamon stick, pencil shavings and lavender. Medium to full-bodied, the palate has wonderful energy, with a lively line of freshness and well-played, rounded tannins, finishing with an invigorating lift. (LPB)
(6/2020)
K&L Notes
PLEASE NOTE: 2019 Bordeaux Futures are being offered without any added tariffs. If there are applicable tariffs at the time the wines are imported in 2022, we will contact you with the option to pay tariffs to have the wine delivered, or cancel the order with no penalty. 93-95 Antonio Galloni in Vinous: "The 2019 Barde-Haut is an opulent, full-throttle Saint-Émilion. Inky dark fruit, chocolate, licorice, cloves and menthol power through in a heady, exotic Saint-Émilion that very much reflects the opulent style of the year. Today, the tannins are equally imposing, which suggests the 2019 is going to need a number of years in bottle to come around. Readers should expected a potent, flamboyantly ripe style." (6/2020)
