chateau batailley 5eme cru classe pauillac

Château Batailley

Château Batailley, 5ème Cru Classé, Pauillac, 2020

Name: Château Batailley, 5ème Cru Classé, Pauillac
Brand: Château Batailley
Price: 234.02 GBP

93/100

The Wine Independent

93/100

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12x37.5cl
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3x1.5L
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Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

The Castéja family’s Batailley is always one of the best value buys in Pauillac and the whilst the 2020 isn’t quite as sumptuous as the spectacular 2019, it is still a mighty impressive wine that will rank amongst their best. We must stop referring to this as the new style of Batailley, the project to elevate Batailley is well established now – we should expect seductive fruit and beautifully polished tannins. Produced from 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 26% Merlot, 2% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot, the 2020 Batailley is glossy and perfumed with a seductive bouquet of black cherry, liquorice and cloves. Although lavish and rather decadent, there’s still freshness and poise to the fruit: sleek, pure, refreshing, with graceful tannins laced with notes of coal and graphite. Coming back to this many hours later, the intensity of the fruit is even more evident. There is such power and freshness. Sure to be one of the best buys from the Medoc.

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Critic Reviews

93/100

Lisa Perrotti-Brown,

The Wine Independent

The 2020 Batailley is composed of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 26% Merlot, 2% Cabernet Franc, and 2% Petit Verdot. Medium to deep garnet-purple in color, it reveals flashy scents of creme de cassis, redcurrant preserves, and wild blueberries, giving way to touches of violets, dark chocolate, camphor, and unsmoked cigars with a hint of cedar. The medium-bodied palate is chock full of bright, expressive cassis and red berry flavors, supported by fine-grained tannins and oodles of freshness, finishing with a mineral lift.

drinking window 2025 - 2045

date of review 06/2023

93/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

The 2020 Batailley has a well-defined bouquet with quite precocious blackberry and raspberry fruit, graphite, just a hint of aniseed, very nicely focused and poised. The palate is medium-bodied with tensile black fruit and armed with commendable salinity and a very detailed finish that lingers in the mouth. Want a classically-styled Pauillac at a good value? Look no further.

drinking window 2028 - 2055

date of review 02/2023

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