2014 Haut Batailley
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Pure and clean and fresh with a nose that is pure Pauillac. And it gets better in the mouth. Sweet blackcurrant fruit. Complete, and ripe, and perfectly unforced. Cool and crisp. Very, very good. Joss Fowler, FINE+RARE, April 2015.
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Tim Atkin MW
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The 2014 Haut-Batailley has a perfumed, floral bouquet with pressed rose petals and bay leaves infusing the vivacious dark berry fruit. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins, very well-balanced and classic in style, with black pepper and graphite towards the finish. It gains intensity in the glass, completing a really delicious Pauillac that should be ready in a year or two. Tasted blind at the Southwold 10-Year-On tasting.
Tasted blind. Deep garnet. Lifted and minty, sweet cassis. Fresh and finely textured, elegant and persistent. Harmony between fruit and structure for the medium term. (JH)
The 2014 Haut-Batailley has a tightly wound bouquet with blackberry, bilberry, mint and graphite. It is not powerful or showy, much more linear and actually quite discrete. The palate is medium-bodied with crisp blackberry and boysenberry fruit, graphite and cedar, very focused and nicely structured although it clearly requires several years to unfurl. But it conveys energy right on the finish that bodes well for the future. Tasted blind at the annual Southwold tasting.
About the producer
The Cazes family – owners of Lynch-Bages and Ormes de Pez – purchased Haut-Batailley in 2017. They’ve embarked on a significant replanting programme, and exciting things are likely to come from this address with its new backing.