Château Haut Batailley 5. Cru Classé Pauillac 2022

"A blend of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon and 30% Merlot, the 2022 Haut-Batailley offers up aromas of sweet berries and plums mingled with licorice and pencil shavings. Medium to full-bodied, firm and structured, it's a serious, rather muscular and extracted wine that begins to nod toward its stablemate Lynch Bages in style."
91-93+/100 Punkte

"Classy and very focused with blackberry and blackcurrant character. The tannins nicely melt into the wine with finesse and weightlessness. Elegant. 70% cabernet sauvignon and 30% merlot."
94-95/100 Punkte

"Tiefdunkles Rubingranat, violette Reflexe, dezente Randaufhellung. Zart floral unterlegte Cassisnuancen, rote Herzkirschen, frische Mandarinenzesten, attraktives Bukett. Saftig, Rote Ribiseln, rote Kirschen, etwas Nugat, frisch strukturiert, miner- alisch-salzig im Abgang, lebendiger, animierender Stil, gutes Reifepotenzial."
96/100 Punkte

"The 2022 Haut-Batailley is matured in 65% new oak for a planned 16 months. It has a very intense and almost untamed bouquet that explodes from the glass, and only after five or ten minutes does it begin to show some restraint. The palate is medium-bodied with grippy, fresh and multi-layered tannins, not dissimilar to the Mouton-Rothschild that I tasted a couple of hours earlier. With a satin-textured finish, this will need a decade in the cellar and some taming during élevage. Like a young tiger at the moment. It has 14.2% alcohol."
93-95/100 Punkte - Trinkreife: 2033 - 2070