Bordeaux overachiever placed in the top 1% at the Decanter World Wine Awards
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2018 Chateau La Haye Saint-Estephe Bordeaux 750 ml
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Not Your Grandfather’s Claret
2018 in Bordeaux is the Napa Cab lover’s vintage par excellence. The hottest, driest summer in half a century yielded the sort of rich, pliant, extravagantly sumptuous wines you’d associate with Oakville, not somber Pauillac. In other words, thanks to a steady uptick in temperatures, this is not your grandfather’s claret.
Case in point: The 2018 Château La Haye Saint-Estèphe, a powerhouse that won 97 points and a Platinum Medal from the Decanter World Wine Awards—besting 99.11% of the 18,244 entrants!
Hailed as “one of the appellation’s hidden gems” by Vinous, Château La Haye’s wines are crafted by a consultant to FIVE First Growth properties.
Château La Haye’s small size—just around 74 acres—makes it easy to miss, even as it shares the priceless terroir of nearby giants like Château Lafite and Cos d’Estournel.
Consulting winemakerEric Boissenot,is the other reason Château La Haye gets spoken of in the company of world-renowned Bordeaux. Named “arguably one of the most influential figures in Bordeaux” by Decanter, Boissenot brings the same technical brilliance to La Haye as he does to clients like Lafite, Latour, Margaux, and Mouton Rothschild.
Château La Haye is among the oldest properties in Saint-Estèphe, with vines first planted in 1557. The property had remained with one family for 370 years until Chris Cardon purchased it in 2012. He instituted a number of reforms, including hiring Boissenot, shifting to smaller vats to vinify by plot, and decreasing the amount of new oak used for aging.
These stylistic choices allowed the wine to shine in 2018. It has a remarkable mix of freshness and mouthfilling richness that cements its place among the best buys of the vintage.