Appellations

Haut Batailley 2022

Pauillac, Fifth Growth

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Tasting Notes

Deep plum and blackberry fruit, touch of gunsmoke reduction on first opening, softening to show depth and flesh to the fruit. 65% new oak. 41hl/h yield.

Score: 93 Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2028-2046 Date: 06 March 2025

The 2022 Haut-Batailley has a wonderfully defined, mineral-driven bouquet with a touch of vibrant black fruit and perhaps more focus than previous vintages. The palate is medium-bodied with a crisp acidity. This elegant Haut-Batailley builds beautifully while retaining tension and poise on the finish. This might be the best vintage to date under the Cazes family.

Score: 94 Neal Martin, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2033-2070 Date: 12 February 2025

The 2022 Château Haut-Batailley is much more structured and darker than the Verso, offering classic Pauillac cassis, currant, tobacco leaf, melted chocolate, and espresso nuances, with an almost iron-like hint that emerges with time in the glass. Full-bodied, concentrated, and powerful, it's nevertheless balanced and textured. It's a brilliant wine, if not the finest vintage I've tasted from this château.

Score: 94 - 96 Jeb Dunnuck, JebDunnuck.com Date: 05 October 2023

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.

Score: 93 - 95 Antonio Galloni, Inside Bordeaux Maturity: 2030-2052 Date: 09 May 2023

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.

Score: 91 - 93 William Kelley, Wine Advocate, RobertParker.com Date: 28 April 2023

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.

Score: 94 - 95 James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com Date: 13 April 2023