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Chateau Batailley 2004 Paulliac

Back in Paris for a day and dinner at a local favourite. They had updated their wine list (probably because we had drank most of the old 2000..). On the list was Ch Batailley 2004 5th Grand cru classee from Bordeaux. What hardship.....

Dark red colour with lovely smell of cassis, tobacco and coffee. Lovely fruit and balance with firm tannins of the kind version. 2004 is not the greatest of years but the wines are reasonable compared to 2005 and later on and they are drinking wonderfully now and for the next 5 years at least.

Ch Batailley 2004, Paulliac, 5 Grand Cru Classe, classy stuff for 36£ or around 30€



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Anonymous said…
Not long opened this 2004 myself. Slightly disappointed, it's pretty austere and is giving little away even an hour after opening. Still, there are worse Christmas dinner lubricants, I shouldn't complain.
25 December 2012 at 16:16
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