Chateau Batailley Pauillac 2005 26REASONABLE from the Écueil

from the Écueil

followed by at least 15 months in bottle

Blade and Bow 22-Year-Old was most recently aged and bottled at Stitzel-Weller

Within this region

Chateau Batailley Pauillac 2005 26REASONABLE from the ÉcueilTwenty plus years on, the 2005 Batailley is sitting squarely in its sweet spot. The Castja owned Pauillac Fifth Growth has long been the quiet, classical Pauillac in the family dependable, structured, never flashy and 2005 was one of the great Left Bank vintages of the decade, with the density and tannic spine to reward this kind of patience. Two decades have softened the wine into cedar, tobacco, and dried cassis territory while the core of Pauillac