Saturday, 18 January 2014

Château Batailley – 1988


A straight down the middle cedar-and-cassis Pauillac. Tannins are resolved, but the fruit is still surprisingly dark. Neither smoky nor animalistic, but the cedar becomes ever spicier: clove and allspice. There is just a touch of further tertiary elements about it, the suggestion of Chinese food. The finish is dry, liquorishy, acid-driven and perhaps not very long. I found it structurally a little slight to begin with, but it gains some weight with time. 

90/100

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