Haut-Batailley

Specification

Producer

Haut-Batailley

Region

Bordeaux

Where

Pauillac, Bordeaux

Classification

Fifth Growth (1855)

Grapes

Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc

Vintage

2010

Case

6 x 75cl OWC

Held at

Wine Tunnels, London City Bond (in bond)

Code

HAUBAT106X75

About this wine

Haut-Batailley is a Pauillac led by Cabernet Sauvignon with Merlot and a little Cabernet Franc. It is one of the more elegant and perfumed wines of the commune, with cassis, cedar and fine tannin, sometimes showing a Saint-Julien-like suppleness. It typically drinks well from around eight years and good vintages keep for twenty.

About Haut-Batailley

Château Haut-Batailley is a Fifth Growth of Pauillac, created when the original Batailley estate was divided in the 1940s. It was owned for many years by members of the Borie family, also owners of Ducru-Beaucaillou, and its vineyards lie in the south-west of the commune, near Saint-Julien.

In 2017 the estate was bought by the Cazes family of Château Lynch-Bages, who have since invested in the vineyard and built a new cellar. Haut-Batailley is known for a refined, approachable style of Pauillac.