Chateau Haut Bardin Bordeaux 2024
$30, 13.5% alcohol, cork, Bordeaux/France.
Pencils and chocolate, blackcurrant and sage. This is a medium-weight red wine at most, but its flavour profile is all of solid, authentic and delicious, and the finish is sound. I have no hesitation in recommending this. It’s a decent, well formed, well flavoured Bordeaux red at a decent, well-considered asking price. 90 points.
Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
