Gorgeous purity of fruit in this wine with depth and beauty. Full-bodied. It really grows on the palate with a hyper fine tannin texture. - jamessuckling.com, April 2019

Deeply colored, the 2018 Château Barde-Haut gives up a powerful, yet elegant profile that carries beautiful black cherry, chocolate, liquid violets, and hints of minerality. It's medium to full-bodied, has beautiful mid-palate depth, integrated acidity, and thrilling tannin quality, which isn’t a given in the vintage. Opening up with time in the glass, it shows more and more minerality and freshness, and is flawlessly balanced. In short, it’s beautiful Saint-Émilion readers will love to have in their cellar. - jebdunnuck.com, April 2019

The 2018 Barde-Haut is a powerful wine, but it is also rather closed. That won't be an issue in time; the 2018 needs quite a bit of air to show all of the rich, layered fruit readers have come to expect from this Saint-Émilion. Succulent dark cherry, chocolate, new leather, espresso and sweet spice build into the rich, layered finish.

The 2018 Barde-Haut is a final blend composed of 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc. Deep garnet-purple in color, it sashays sensuously out of the glass with effortless baked blackberries, preserved plums and blueberry pie notes plus hints of incense, powdered cinnamon, cigar box and star anise. Full-bodied and packed with spicy black and blue fruits, it is beautifully textured with firm, velvety tannins and just enough background freshness, finishing very long and seductive. - Lisa Perrotti-Brown, April 2019, The Wine Advocate

The 2018 Barde-Haut was picked from 21 September and was blended the week prior to my visit in September 2019. This has a very pure and perfumed, quite floral bouquet with black cherries, hints of cassis, marmalade and light mineral top notes. The palate is medium-bodied with succulent tannins matched with a fine bead of acidity. Barde-Haut has been in a good run of late and this continues that trend. I find the exotic side of the wine has been contained during its élevage. This has a lot of potential but it may benefit remaining longer in cellar than its peers.