Chateau Batailley Pauillac 2005 CS20230731 surprising due to the mouth-coating

surprising due to the mouth-coating texture

for roughly nine to ten months

This bottling comes off a south-facing slope near the Tanaro river

Walk the vineyard today and you are walking past the oldest continuously producing Chardonnay vines in the Western Hemisphere

designed for pleasure over complexity

Chateau Batailley Pauillac 2005 CS20230731 surprising due to the mouth-coatingTwenty plus years on, the 2005 Batailley is sitting squarely in its sweet spot. The Castja owned Pauillac Fifth Growth has long been the quiet, classical Pauillac in the family dependable, structured, never flashy and 2005 was one of the great Left Bank vintages of the decade, with the density and tannic spine to reward this kind of patience. Two decades have softened the wine into cedar, tobacco, and dried cassis territory while the core of Pauillac