Chateau Batailley 5eme Cru Classe, Pauillac 2016

Name: 2016 Chateau Batailley 5eme Cru Classe, Pauillac
Brand: Château Batailley
SKU: 100632220160600750-IB
Price: 450.0 USD
Availability: InStock

5eme Cru Classe

Château Batailley

96James Suckling

94+Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW

93Jane Anson

+2 more

$450.00

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Bonded provenance

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Drinking window

2022 · opens 2029–2039 · peak 2050

now +24 yrs

Ready - youthful · best from 2029 · will keep to 2050.

Tasting notes

James Suckling · James Suckling · 96

Shows beautiful, ripe cabernet aromas with currants, plums, meat and smoke. Flowers, too. Full body, deep and ripe fruit and exquisite, ripe tannins. Flavorful finish. Tight right now, but shows excellent potential. Best ever. Try after 2024.

Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW · Wine Advocate · 94+

The 2016 Batailley is deep garnet-coloured. It rolls up with gregarious blackcurrant jelly, plum preserves, and cedar chest scents, plus touches of violets, dark chocolate, and graphite. The light to medium-bodied palate is bright, breezy, and refreshing. It delivers crunchy, youthful fruit and a firm, grainy frame, finishing on a lingering mineral note.

Drink 2022 - 2038

Jane Anson · Decanter · 93

A tunnel of tannins takes you right through the palate, but it is not fully walled in as with 2010, rather the tannins are pliable and the overall feeling is of well controlled fruit that deepens as you go along. The blend is 85% Cabernet Sauvignon, with 12% Merlot and 3% Petit Verdot, and a pH of 3.6. Wonderfully deep fruit flavours of blackberry and crushed cassis reside against black chocolate and well contained tannins. A lovely vintage that has power but is just the right side of big extraction. Good persistency with a coffee-scented finish. This is a buy, for sure.

Neal Martin · Vinous · 93+

The 2016 Batailley has an attractive, meaty bouquet with more red fruit than black, unlike many of its peers. With aeration it appears to gain more floral notes and lift. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins, linear and focused, offering pencil lead, cedar and light spicy notes toward the conservative, controlled finish. A mocha-tinged aftertaste emanates from the oak. Good potential, but it needs time. Tasted blind at the Southwold tasting.

Jeb Dunnuck · Jeb Dunnuck · 90+

Slightly difficult to read, with a tight, closed style on the palate, the 2016 Château Batailley offers enjoyable dark fruits, leafy tobacco, new leather, and charred oak aromas and flavours. Medium-bodied, nicely balanced, and fresh, it needs to be forgotten for 3-4 years, at which point I suspect it will come closer to matching the barrel review and drink nicely for 10-15 years or more.

Drink 2022 - 2037

Catalog details

Appellation5eme Cru Classe

RegionBordeaux

Vintage2016

ColorRed

Top Score96 · James Suckling

Format750 ml

SourceMerchant

StorageBonded warehouse