Château Batailley 5ème Cru Classé, Pauillac 2018

Layers of blackcurrant, cedar, tobacco, and graphite, underpinned by fine-grained tannins and a long, savoury finish.

A powerful wine with the refined and intense tannins typical of Pauillac.
This Bordeaux is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and, Cabernet Franc.
The wine is matured in barrel for 20 months with 40% being new oak, contributing toasty complexity.
This wine benefits from two hours of decanting to reveal its true potential.
Château Haut Batailley has been a family run winery for most of the 20th Century.

Vintage: 2018
Type/Colour: Red
Alcohol: 14.5%
Bottle Size: 75cl
Group: Bordeaux

"An excellent wine from Xavier Borie, the 2005 Haut-Batailley displays plenty of silky blackcurrant fruit along with notes of licorice and incense, as well as some nice underbrush and unsmoked cigar tobacco. Medium-bodied and lush, with lovely purity, this beautiful wine should drink well for another 15-20 years. Drink 2015-2035." - Robert Parker Jr., The Wine Advocate, 2015

"Tasted at a vertical tasting at the château. The 2005 Haut Batailley obviously has a more intense bouquet than the 2004 with blackberry, wild hedgerow and cold gravel scents. It is still quite tight, but there is very fine precision here. The palate is medium-bodied with supple, ripe earthy black fruit. It is actually more approachable than I was expecting for a 2005 having loosened its tie in recent years. There is great depth here and fine minerality, completing what is a classy and sophisticated Pauillac that should repay further bottle age. Chapeau! Tasted July 2016. Drink Date 2017 - 2035" - Neal Martin, The Wine Advocate, 2017