2017 Haut-Batailley
France
Pauillac Grand Cru Classé
Bordeaux
Red
66% Cabernet Sauvignon, 34% Merlot
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Though I have been traipsing around Bordeaux for many years, my visit to Haut-Batailley at the beginning of my primeur trip was my first. It was raining cats, dogs and small marsupials, though the eye-catching pink exterior brightened the day. The acquisition by the Cazes family from the sister of François-Xavier Borie at Grand Puy-Lacoste, on the eve of last year’s en primeur, hit the headlines. Twelve months ago the 2016 was not shown because Jean-Charles felt that they did not have the legitimacy to do so since François-Xavier had made the wine. (Readers should note that I did finally taste the wine recently and will publish my notes shortly). “We dug some holes to see the differences between terroir,” Jean-Charles tells me. “We studied 45 profiles and assembled three families of soils: gravel with organic material and a clay subsoil; gravel with limited water reserves with alios (iron and clay pan) that will be more subject to the weather conditions; and typical deep gravel with clay subsoil. The vineyard is presently plated with 61% Cabernet Sauvignon, 36% Merlot and 3% Petit Verdot although we will eventually increase the Cabernet when we have the new plantings.”
I ask Jean-Charles about the 2017 vintage. “We had good yields with no frost and the vines that did not suffer frost enjoyed a very good flowering, which set us up for a good yield. Afterwards, the summer was not as sunny and warm as previous years. There was some rain in early September that affected more the Merlot, so the Cabernets performed better this year. We harvested with no disease pressure and finished in advance compared to average dates. We obtained 12.5° alcohol with nice acidity.” The 2017 Haut-Batailley is a very fine Pauillac, smooth in texture and precise. It’s a very good and very competent start to a new era rather than a revolution, the benefits of investment by the Cazes family inevitably yielding results that I suspect will realize even better wines in the future. Literally two minutes as I filed this report, the wine was released at a “punchy” 46% above ex-cellar prices for the 2015 two years ago, clearly the first step in repositioning the brand.
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Though I have been traipsing around Bordeaux for many years, my visit to Haut-Batailley at the beginning of my primeur trip was my first. It was raining cats, dogs and small marsupials, though the eye-catching pink exterior brightened the day. The acquisition by the Cazes family from the sister of François-Xavier Borie at Grand Puy-Lacoste, on the eve of last year’s en primeur, hit the headlines. Twelve months ago the 2016 was not shown because Jean-Charles felt that they did not have the legitimacy to do so since François-Xavier had made the wine. (Readers should note that I did finally taste the wine recently and will publish my notes shortly). “We dug some holes to see the differences between terroir,” Jean-Charles tells me. “We studied 45 profiles and assembled three families of soils: gravel with organic material and a clay subsoil; gravel with limited water reserves with alios (iron and clay pan) that will be more subject to the weather conditions; and typical deep gravel with clay subsoil. The vineyard is presently plated with 61% Cabernet Sauvignon, 36% Merlot and 3% Petit Verdot although we will eventually increase the Cabernet when we have the new plantings.”
I ask Jean-Charles about the 2017 vintage. “We had good yields with no frost and the vines that did not suffer frost enjoyed a very good flowering, which set us up for a good yield. Afterwards, the summer was not as sunny and warm as previous years. There was some rain in early September that affected more the Merlot, so the Cabernets performed better this year. We harvested with no disease pressure and finished in advance compared to average dates. We obtained 12.5° alcohol with nice acidity.” The 2017 Haut-Batailley is a very fine Pauillac, smooth in texture and precise. It’s a very good and very competent start to a new era rather than a revolution, the benefits of investment by the Cazes family inevitably yielding results that I suspect will realize even better wines in the future. Literally two minutes as I filed this report, the wine was released at a “punchy” 46% above ex-cellar prices for the 2015 two years ago, clearly the first step in repositioning the brand.
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