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Château Batailley Pauillac Cabernet Sauvignon 2005
...Their 2005, one of the finest efforts this estate has yet produced, is backward, tannic, and almost primordial in style. Built for the long-term, it offers plenty of sweet creme de cassis fruit intermixed with smoke, cedar, and earth notes. Full-bodied and powerful, it is an old style Pauillac with well-integrated acidity as well as sweet but elevated tannins... Robert Parker
Ratings on Delectable
Gregory Fulchiero 
Earth driven - wet soil and cut dried potpourri flowers - integrated spice box and tobacco. Just lovely.
Earth driven - wet soil and cut dried potpourri flowers - integrated spice box and tobacco. Just lovely.
9.0Gregory Fulchiero
Starting into a very nice drinking window - smooth tannins and stoic iron, pencil shavings and hoisin sauce. A coravin experiment for us
Starting into a very nice drinking window - smooth tannins and stoic iron, pencil shavings and hoisin sauce. A coravin experiment for us
9.2
Sybaritewino C.Lawrence
Very much closed at first, but opened a treat, with cedar, spice rack, cigar box & dry cassis on the nose. Precise palate, with dusty tannins & savoury acids, combining in a texturally scrumptious finish with an aroma that reminded me of the mulberries picked this morning. That said, loved that it wasn't super fruity. '05 being warm, was worried but this would be a cooked jam #redwine, but rather, it was succulent without having the clumsy, cloying sweetness found in some wines.
Very much closed at first, but opened a treat, with cedar, spice rack, cigar box & dry cassis on the nose. Precise palate, with dusty tannins & savoury acids, combining in a texturally scrumptious finish with an aroma that reminded me of the mulberries picked this morning. That said, loved that it wasn't super fruity. '05 being warm, was worried but this would be a cooked jam #redwine, but rather, it was succulent without having the clumsy, cloying sweetness found in some wines.
9.0
Kirsten Spalding
Burst of oak smokiness
Burst of oak smokiness
Sylvain Rhainds
Suprenant...déjà approchable. Bien fait. Un vin honnête
Suprenant...déjà approchable. Bien fait. Un vin honnête
9.0Sylvain Rhainds
2008
2008
9.1
Jonty Edwards
Superb! Beautifully perfumed nose. My sort of pauillac. Perfect accompaniment to slow cooked lamb. 7.6
Superb! Beautifully perfumed nose. My sort of pauillac. Perfect accompaniment to slow cooked lamb. 7.6
9.5
Ed Chang
Classic Bordeaux - has many years left. Great with the lamb... Can't wait to open the next bottle
Classic Bordeaux - has many years left. Great with the lamb... Can't wait to open the next bottle
9.2
Corkbuzz Charlotte
Solid stuff, great texture but more potential still than current delivery.
Solid stuff, great texture but more potential still than current delivery.
8.7Guy Davies
Superb. Tuesday night. £25. Duck. Classic stuff, powerful yet light. Long finish. More to come on nose but feels gorgeous. Could drink this every night.
Superb. Tuesday night. £25. Duck. Classic stuff, powerful yet light. Long finish. More to come on nose but feels gorgeous. Could drink this every night.
9.3
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