Chateau Haut Batailley 5eme Cru 2025

Colin Hay über: Chateau Haut Batailley 5eme Cru

(Pauillac; 58% Cabernet Sauvignon, 37% Merlot, 5% Petit Verdot; a final yield of 30 hl/ha; pH 3.60; IPT 82; 13.5% ABV; tasted at the UGCB press tasting at the Cité du Vin and then at Lynch-Bages). There's a lovely natural sweetness to this, evident aromatically; there's also a very classical Pauillac dose of cedar that intemingles so beautifully and beguilingly with the wild herbal notes and the dark berry fruits – mulberry and blackberry with a little loganberry perhaps too (with more of the latter on the palate). Soft and caressing, this exudes harmony. It has a radiant plungepool core, is luminous and crystalline and almost shimmering in its clarity. Excellent.