Chateau Haut-Batailley 5. Cru Pauillac 2022 i trækasse

"94-96/100 The Wine Cellar Insider," - The Wine Cellar Insider - Jeff Leve

94-96/100 The Wine Cellar Insider, Jeff Leve
Dark in color, the wine is equally dark on the palate with its layers of black, red, and blue fruits, nuances of pepper, spice box, flowers, and currants. Deep, long, chewy, creamy and intense, there are gorgeous layers of fruit here waiting to be tasted. The wine is powerful, tannic, and long. The finish sticks with its fruit, and minty edge to the endnote. The wine was made from blending 70% Cabernet Sauvignon and 30% Merlot. 14.2% ABV, 3.73 pH. Drink from 2026-2050.

94-95/100 Wine Maniacs

94-95/100 Andrew Caillard
Deep crimson. Vigorous and expressive, but elemental wine with ample elderberry, cassis, dark chocolate aromas, persistent fine bittersweet tannins and some savoury notes. Very good density and linear freshness. (Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc 30% + new oak)

94-95/100 La Revue du Vin de France

94-95/100 James Suckling
Classy and very focused with blackberry and blackcurrant character. The tannins nicely melt into the wine with finesse and weightlessness. Elegant. 70% cabernet sauvignon and 30% merlot.

93-95/100 Antonio Galloni
The 2022 Haut-Batailley is a potent, brooding wine. Black cherry, gravel, cured meat, spice and leather infuse the 2022 with tons of mineral and savory intensity, backed by a formidable spine of tannin that gives the wine shape and vertical thrust. I imagine the 2022 will need the better part of a decade to come into its own. Tasted two times. Drinking window : 2030-2052

93-95/100 Neal Martin
The 2022 Haut-Batailley is matured in 65% new oak for a planned 16 months. It has a very intense and almost untamed bouquet that explodes from the glass, and only after five or ten minutes does it begin to show some restraint. The palate is medium-bodied with grippy, fresh and multi-layered tannins, not dissimilar to the Mouton-Rothschild that I tasted a couple of hours earlier. With a satin-textured finish, this will need a decade in the cellar and some taming during élevage. Like a young tiger at the moment. It has 14.2% alcohol

94/100 Terres de Vins

92-94/100 The Wine Independent
he 2022 Haut-Batailley, 70% Cabernet Sauvignon and 30% Merlot, is deep garnet-purple in color. It gallops out with bold notions of warm cassis, blackberry pie, and black raspberries, followed by hints of clove oil, tilled soil, and lilacs. The medium to full-bodied palate has a rock-solid backbone of firm, grainy tannins and plenty of freshness to support the taut, muscular fruit, finishing long and minerally. pH 3.73, TPI 92.

93/100 Decanter
Ripe, dark bramble fruits, concentrated and intense on the nose and on the palate but with such juicy acidity. This is quite serious though, the fine but filling tannins have tension and give a sense of strictness to the palate which is nicely countered by the generous, fruity, juicy fruit profile. Well made, almost chewy but still cool and refreshing with blueberries, graphite, liquorice and tobacco edges. Nice and easy, but still intense with depth and cool minerality on the finish. 92 IPT. 3.73pH. Ageing 16 months, 65% new oak

93/100 Jane Anson
Sculpted plum and raspbery puree fruits, fresh lift through the palte, this is a lovely wine that has intense liquorice and bilberry fruit, a little austere in its tannic structure on the finish, more so than in recent vintages at this sculpted fruit-forward Pauillac, but there is great spice here, and has the phenolic richness and density of the year. 3.73ph, 65% new oak.

92-93/100 Alexandre Ma
This blend of Cabernet Sauvignon exhibits a vivid portrayal of spicy notes, violet and refreshing berry aromas. It showcases the power of traditional Pauillac, while also boasting a supple body. Like other masterpieces produced by JMC, its tannins are polished with exquisite finesse, and its handling of spices and fragrances is nicely adept. On the finish, the peppery spiciness adds rich layers of complexity. If only the tannin structure could be a bit more balanced, it would be even better.

91-93/100 Robert Parker
A blend of 70% Cabernet Sauvignon and 30% Merlot, the 2022 Haut-Batailley offers up aromas of sweet berries and plums mingled with licorice and pencil shavings. Medium to full-bodied, firm and structured, it's a serious, rather muscular and extracted wine that begins to nod toward its stablemate Lynch Bages in style. 91 - 93

91/100 Bettane & Desseauve

18/20 Matthew Dukes