2000 Château Batailley, Pauillac, Bordeaux

There is so much white truffle and ripe fruit here with meat, cedar and berry character. Full and very rich. Decadent. Delicious nowjames_suckling, jamessuckling_com (October 2016)

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 fine tannin; this bottle is more backward than others, with firm tannin providing sturdy backbone. It remains a burly Pauillac for the vintage, and it is certainly masculine in style. Then again, that is a leitmotif of the millennial vintage. As such, I can envisage this mellowing in four to six year's time, whereupon it will have the substance to give drinking pleasure over many years. Tasted April 2016.Neil Martin - 30/06/2017