Chateau Haut Batailley 2023

JAMES SUCKLING: "This shows structure and focus, with creamy, powdery tannins and a very pretty, silky texture. Medium to full body with a solid line of tannins running through the wine. Blackberries and currants with a hint of crushed stone. Better than 2022?"

FALSTAFF: "Dunkles Rubingranat, violette Reflexe, zarte Randaufhellung. Feinfruchtiges Bukett, reife Kirschen, ein Hauch von Gewürznelken, einladendes Bukett. Saftig, dunkelbeerig, tragende, präsente Tannine, gute Komplexität und Frische, mineralisch im Abgang, zart blättriger Nachhall, wird von Reife profitieren."

THE WINE ADVOCATE: "The 2023 Haut-Batailley is a blend of 71% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot and 4% Petit Verdot that increasingly resembles its stablemate Lynch Bages in style. Offering up aromas of dark berries, plums, pencil shavings and creamy new oak, it's medium to full-bodied, deep and layered, with plenty of generously extracted, youthfully chewy tannin and a long, lusty finish."