VINTAGE OVERVIEW
A PROPHETIC YEAR
The 2022 vintage was marked by extreme climatic conditions, but everything leads us to believe that it announces, or prefigures, the climate that we will encounter in the coming decades. What seems extraordinary today will become tomorrow, if not the norm, at least usual.
CLIMATIC CONDITIONS
The winter was moderately wet and rainfall was mainly concentrated in November and December. Temperatures became very cold but this did not last and February was again mild this year. The buds for the early Merlots first appeared the last week of March.
The Bordeaux vineyards then experienced five intense nights of frost at the beginning of April 2022, which we tackled as a team with the help of frost towers and candles. This frost caused little damage to the Merlot grapes, and had almost no impact on the Cabernet Sauvignon....
THE WINES
The months of September to November were hot and dry and the harvest began early in ideal conditions: from September 7th to 14th for the Merlots, and from the 19th to 27th for the Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot and Cabernet Sauvignon.
Our winery, inaugurated at the end of 2020, has been designed and developed to cope with climate change. Our new installations which include cold rooms, a large variety of vats for plot-by-plot vinification as well as an underground maturing cellar allow us to both preserve and refine our fruit and also to create wines that combine power and elegance, density and freshness.
This 2022 vintage is therefore a double satisfaction for us. The satisfaction of having produced a very great wine and the confidence that we will continue to produce them in the years to come.
“ 2022 is an inspiration for future vintages, where we will have to use our wits, in the vineyard and in the cellar, to make ever better wines. ”
Véronique Sanders, President
25th VINTAGE OF THE WILMERS' ERA
2022 is the 25th vintage since Haut- Bailly was acquired by Bob Wilmers in 1998. It is the fruit of 25 years of reflection, work, research and innovation in the service of this exceptional terroir which, for centuries, the teams at Haut-Bailly have taken to heart to enhance.....
AGRONOMY AND BIODIVERSITY
A study carried out by the Ligue Protectrice des Oiseaux (Bird Protection League) enabled us to list the fauna present on the estate. Fifty-three different species of birds (skylarks, ducks, thrushes, black flycatchers, swallows, linnets, blackbirds, chickadees, sparrows, chaffinches, nightin- gales, robins, etc.)....
“This 2022 vintage is therefore a double satisfaction for us. The satisfaction of having produced a very great wine and the confidence that we will continue to produce them in the years to come."
Chris Wilmers, Chairman of the Supervisory Board
