1996 Château Batailley

Community Tasting Notes (106) Avg Score: 90 points

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  5/3/2024 - chatters wrote:

  Coravin fun - Bordeaux (My place, Burwood): From Coravin. Aromas of blood, earth, red and black fruits, a little currant, plums, fruit a little dried out, Asian five spice, soy sauce. In the mouth there are flavours of very slightly sharp blackcurrant and brambles, black tea tannins, little sous bois and Szechuan spice on the finish. Yum.

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  3/3/2024 - greatnate Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Filtered through metal coffee filter (used only for wine), drank from decanter (chemex, also only for wine) but did not give much time to aerate. Had with duck confit. Showed an unexpected amount of fruit, acid, and freshness. Tannins fully integrated. With caveats, lacking in concentration, complexity, length, and tertiary aromas/flavours. It was enjoyable, but felt more like a weeknight dinner wine than a Sunday duck confit wine. That being said, the last sip was the best and it seemed to be switching into a new and improved gear. My sense was that another 30m in the decanter and the wine would have shown more in the lacking areas and might have scored 90, at a stretch 91. I have a second bottle and will decant in a wide decanter for an hour and report back
  
  88-89 pts.
  
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  1/9/2024 - Callymac16 wrote:

  Fruit notes still present

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  6/30/2023 - Brett Pitt Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Nicely matured B.

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  6/20/2023 - Philip67 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Very classic Bordeaux. Blackberry and cassis fruit still good. Slight mustiness. Mid weight. Acidity and tannins still provide grip. Plenty of leather and underbrush. Quite a dry, dusty and slightly austere finish. Long and complex. Drinking now, don't think it will improve.

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