2004 Château Batailley

Community Tasting Notes (157) Avg Score: 89.7 points

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  2/24/2024 - Cailles wrote: 85 Points

  Bordeaux 2004 - 20 Years On - 33 Reds: All wines tasted blind, not decanted. Observations: 1) 2004 is a mediocre vintage overall, with many pleasant wines, but without the depth of better years. 2) At the top, the vintage produced some classic, old-school wines with lots of freshness and fresh fruit. 3) At the lower end, many wines lacked fruit and ripe tannins, resulting in some astringent and slightly drying wines. 4) An alarming number of Right Bank wines (5 out of 16, no Left Bank wine) were oxidized, including some heavyweights like Petrus, Evangile or Figeac. An unacceptably high proportion of faulty wines. 5) I’m not sure that the 2004 are currently in a good phase, many of my scores were lower than in previous tastings. The question is if it’s just a weaker phase or the beginning of the end. 6) At the top and the only wine >95pts was a layered Le Pin (rated 96pts), with a charming Vieux Chateau Certan, a surprising Issan and Clos l'Eglise, as well as an elegant Lafite sharing second place (all rated 94pts).
  
  TN: Late in the tasting, I didn’t take detailed notes anymore. I did not enjoy this bottle which didn’t have enough fruit and was quite astringent. The bouquet had a pleasant fruit/minerality interplay and deserves some credit but on the palate there was not much. 84/85pts for the nose?

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  2/3/2024 - Adamchelt wrote: 90 Points

  just a little loss of back bone and fruit but still enough.Very pleasant to drink for another year or two.

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  6/30/2023 - Brett Pitt wrote: 91 Points

  I just like Batailley even in weaker years like this. But the 1996, and especially the 2000 and 1994 were significantly better that night.

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  6/30/2023 - henrygjeffreys Likes this wine:

  Faded rim just taking on a hint of orange.
  Spicy aromatic nose, cardamom, cinnamon, tobacco,
  Spice continues on the palate, highly aromatic, fruit a little faded and stewed. Soft tannins, maybe drying out a tiny bit but this is very nice. Holding up well for nearly 20 years. Did I mention the spice?

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  12/27/2022 - s******n Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Jetzt super im Trinkfenster.

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