"Dark purple-red color with violet tint and black core. Powerful nose with excellent structure, contained fruit, distinct minerality, subtle oak and sweet spices. Powerful palate with persistent character, ripe, well-structured tannins with good length." (Testing Book Markus Del Monego 2019) - Delivery in wooden case for all orders of 6 bottles of this wine (excluding Point Relais delivery method).
Features
Estate
Château Batailley
Cuvée
5ème Grand Cru Classé
Vintage
2018
Designation
Pauillac
Region
Bordeaux
Grape varieties
74% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23% Merlot, 3% Petit Verdot
Terroirs
Gravel and sand soils
Viticulture
Traditional and meticulous
Harvest
Manual
Winemaking
Temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks
Breeding
16 to 18 months in barrels, 60% new
Alcohol content
14,5%
Tasting & pairing
Eye
Deep, almost black colour
Nose
Intense bouquet of blackberry and vanilla
Mouth
Round, smooth and concentrated on the palate. The structure is accomplished and almost perfect.
Serve
AT 16-18°C
Open
1 hour before
Drink from
2025
Drink before
2040
Food and wine pairing
Enjoy with leg of lamb, pheasant casserole or an assortment of cheeses.
Château Batailley
Pauillac
Expert opinion
Bettane & Desseauve
Wine rated (2019 guide) 96/100
Domaine rated (guide 2021) 4*Stars (Top-quality producers, the glories of French winegrowing)
About the wine:
Complete, combining power, aromatic finesse, high maturity but also freshness, very fine tannic extraction, exemplary Bordeaux classicism.
About the domain :
Owned by the Castéja family, and intelligently advised by the late Denis Dubourdieu, the wine has rediscovered the fullness of its style, combining the power it often displayed between 1945 and 1961 with infinitely more purity and aromatic finesse. The wines have progressed spectacularly since the 2000s and represent one of Pauillac's most reliable value-for-money offerings. Since 2015, a second wine, lions-de-batailley, has enabled an even more rigorous selection of the grand vin blend.
Guide Hachette des vins
Domaine noté (guide 2021) Award-winning wines (The wines of this producer are regularly awarded by the guide)
About the domain :
The flagship of Borie Manoux, a venerable trading house founded in 1870 by the Castéja family, one of Pauillac's oldest families, and owner of the cru since 1932. A beautiful 55-hectare unit at the south-western end of the appellation, which owes its name to a battle that took place on these lands in 1453.
Robert Parker - Wine Advocate
Domaine noté Recommended (Wine producer recommended by Robert Parker - The Wine Advocate)
RVF - La Revue du Vin de France / Guide des Meilleurs Vins de France
Wine rated (2020 guide) 96/100
Domaine rated (guide 2022) 2*Stars (These great estates, often endowed with fabulous terroirs, are must-haves which, thanks to their consistency and the excellence of their production, must be included in the cellars of discerning wine lovers).
About the wine:
Ultra-classic, with breed, sap and muscle. Carried by sumptuous Cabernets, it possesses great energy, definition and length. A benchmark for this vintage.
About the domain :
Philippe Castéja produces a Pauillac of classic style and form, which has gained considerably in definition and precision in recent years. The wine also ages remarkably well, retaining a profile very typical of the Médoc's great wines, between straightforwardness and precision. Prices remain very affordable. We are delighted by the consistency and excellent level of recent vintages.
James Suckling
Rated wine (guide 2021 ) 95/100
About the wine:
Aromas of blackberry, cocoa, oyster shell, graphite and black tea. Medium-bodied, with firm, tight-grained tannins. The wine is structured, intense, tight and precise. It needs a few years to soften and open up.
Yves Beck
Wine rated (2020 guide) 97/100
About the wine:
What a superb bouquet! Intense, complex and so Pauillac! It combines the characteristics of this region with notes of cedar, graphite and black berries (elderberry, blackberry). On the palate, the wine continues its Pauillac way, with brio. Dense, intense, muscular and fine! Now that's something! The tannins are compact, perfectly integrated and in phase with the lively structure that sustains the finish in terms of both aroma and persistence. What a great wine... certainly one of the best Batailley's I've ever tasted!
Tastingbook - Markus Del Monego
Wine rated (2019 guide) 94/100
About the wine:
Deep purple-red color with violet tint and black core. Powerful nose with excellent structure, restrained fruit, distinct minerality, subtle oak and sweet spices. On the palate, powerful with persistent character, ripe, well-structured tannins and good length.
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