2025 Château Batailley, Pauillac

2025 Château Batailley, Pauillac

Rich cassis fruit with cocoa and dark chocolate spice. This is a brilliantly balanced Batailley showing the flesh and mid-palate fruit of the warm summer while maintaining freshness and poise through the finish. Layers of violets, spice, creamy oak, and gravelly Pauillac minerality build on the palate to a long and cohesive finish. Great value this year.

Critic score
95.5/100 info
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Case, 3 Magnums
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£156.00
Magnum
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In stock
£52.00

Wine details

  • Region & country
    Pauillac, Médoc, Bordeaux, France
  • Grape
    78% Cabernet Sauvignon
    19% Merlot
    3% Petit Verdot
  • Maturity
    Young 2030 - 2050info
  • Colour
    Red
  • Sweetness
    Dry
  • Style
    Still
  • Unit Volume
    Magnum (150cl.)

Tasting notes

The 2025 Batailley was picked between September 4 and 18 at around 26 hl/ha and is raised in 58% new oak barrels. It has a backward nose at first, opening with blackberry and crushed stone aromas, with a welcome whiff of the Gironde estuary underlying the fruit. Fine delineation and unashamedly classic in style. The palate is medium-bodied with grainy/chalky tannins, good density, fresh and saline, with a cohesive and you could say, "old school" finish. Very fine, very Bordeaux, very Batailley!

Neal Martin, vinous.com (May 2026)
(93—95)/100

Balanced and textural, restrained power with slow and steady unrolling. Floral nuances, crayon and graphite, crushed rocks, delicious, and full of appellation typicity. 58% new oak, Axel Marchal and Valerie Lavigne consultant winemakers.

Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux (May 2026)
96/100

Marries power with finesse. Crème de cassis, new leather, spice, and lavender. Quite deep with great balance. Brooding Pauillac that needs time for tannins to soften.

Antonio Galloni, vinous.com (April 2026)
(95—97)/100

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