Château Batailley 2000, Pauillac139. 95 per bottle Appellation Pauillac Why should you buy this wine? Neal Martin scored 91 pts Best value wine from Pauillac "Tasted at the Batailley vertical tasting at the chteau, the 2000 Batailley displayed youthful vigor on the nose with boysenberry and damson fruit, incense and iodine. As I remarked when I last tasted this in 2011, there is an opulence here that this estate rarely produced up until this period. The palate is medium bodied with

and sharp contrast between day and night temperatures

Jean d`Alibert in Minervois and from Gascogny

On the palate a lovely mineral character combines with the ripe tropical and stone fruits

This fruit was sourced from Two Paddock’s own vineyards in Alexandra and Gibbston and Bannockburn

It expresses a powerful

depicted on the label

The rosé harvest started on the same date as the white wine and continued for just shy of a fortnight

which protects the vine from extreme dryness

and fine tobacco along a lengthy

with aromatic peach and pear fruit

white jasmine and vanilla

Tasting NotesThis Malbec is grown using organic principles in the vineyards of Mendoza