1986 | Chateau Haut Batailley | Chateau Haut Batailley

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Red Wine: 1986 | Chateau Haut Batailley | Chateau Haut Batailley

Elegant and tasty with cedar, plum and currant flavors of moderate depth an d intensity. Lacks the richness for greatness, but it’s a very good drink.

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Producer: Chateau Haut Batailley

Ratings: WA | 89 JS | 85

Vintage: 1986

Size: 750ml

ABV: 14%

Varietal: Bordeaux Blend, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot

Country/Region: France, Bordeaux

Elegant and tasty with cedar, plum and currant flavors of moderate depth an d intensity. Lacks the richness for greatness, but it’s a very good drink.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: The 1986 Haut-Batailley has matured in splendid fashion. The nose is engaging, a mixture of red and black fruit, gravel and spice. Juxtaposed against the 1996 Haut-Batailley I find more energy in this, despite being ten years older. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin, earthy black fruit with good acidity. It is not a complex Pauillac and the finish feels a tad staid, although the residue of white pepper and bay leaf on the finish is very pleasurable.

• James Suckling: Elegant and tasty with cedar, plum and currant flavors of moderate depth an d intensity. Lacks the richness for greatness, but it’s a very good drink.

Producer Information

Chteau Haut-Batailley is a wine estate in the Pauillac appellation in the Mdoc area, north of Bordeaux city and on the left bank of the Garonne estuary. It is one of 18 estates with the status of Fifth Growth, awarded from the 1855 classification of Bordeaux. The chteau building, which is constructed in an almost rustic, Basque style, sits at the southwestern end of the appellation area, roughly two kilometers (1.2 miles) or so due west of Chteau Latour and Chteau Pichon Longueville-Baron. The estate was once a part of the larger, neighboring, Chteau Batailley which sits just to the north of Haut-Batailley. Batailley was bought in 1932 by the brothers Franois and Marcel Borie, who divided it in two in 1942 to avoid conflict in inheritance. Franois took the smaller property that did not include the physical chteau and named the estate Haut-Batailley. He increased the size of the estate by buying vineyards, including purchases of plots in 1951 from the Fourth Growth Chteau Duhart-Milon.