2019 Château Batailley

Community Tasting Notes (17) Avg Score: 92.3 points

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  1/21/2024 - Zweder Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Walkaround tasting so just short notes: Juicy dark berries, oak, cedar, minerals, full bodied, good acidity and round, sticky tannin. Great length. Also elegant. A great beauty, possibly the best Batailley I ever tasted. Delicious but still a baby. Will probably reach early maturity stage around 2032 and drink well into the 2040's. 94 - 95+

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  1/13/2024 - theraredram wrote: 85 Points

  The nose has a good helping of blackberry, a little cherry, some cedar and pencil case. A lot of reviews say graphite but for me it’s certainly more remnant of the pencil, rubber and protractor set you had when you were 12. It doesn’t dominate too much however unlike some other Pauillac classroom collages I’ve had.
  
  The palate has prominent underripe green fig with black cherry, tobacco, pencil case and a distinctly herbaceous character. It’s very much dry and in fact borderline bitter, which along with any green notes I attribute to me knowingly infanticiding the bottle. The tannin is grippy and aggressive yet the fantastic structure is clearly evident and I find myself enjoying this very much indeed.
  
  Leather, flint and rose on the finish, like a bouquet bought fresh from the quarry by a miner in chaps.
  
  I’ve had Batailey before but can’t quite remember enjoying it anywhere close to this one. Good vintage was it? I would absolutely love to revisit this in say half a decade’s time, if not a little longer. Great stuff.

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  10/31/2023 - kostaslonis wrote:

  2019 Bordeaux Tasting, MW tasting (Vintner's Hall, London): 74% CS 25% Mer 1% PV, 14%
  Dense dark notes, black fruit, floral notes, pyrazine notes again, freshness.
  Palate fresh, full body youthful tannins, tensity, red fruit, needs time, long finish

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  4/28/2023 - Chrysostomus Likes this wine: 92 Points

  A little bit shut down at the moment. Will wait another 2-3 years before popping another cork, even from a half-bottle. Fruit is barely hitting the nose or palate. Perfect tannins and structure, but a little bit drying and short. A few months ago there was much more fruit and was drinking much better....wait! (was decanted for 4 hours, not much improvement)

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  12/22/2022 - fozzibaer Likes this wine: 91 Points

  91 with potential for more, should age fine.

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