Château Haut-Batailley 2009

Oral tradition perpetuated to the present day would have it that the name Batailley comes from a famous battle fought during the Hundred Years War that made the return of the English impossible. The vineyard was for a long time owned by a family of Pauillac until 1818 under the Restoration.

The Château was then bought by one of the partners of a trading house of Bordeaux who had the Château rebuilt which was later sold to a banker in the 1860s.In 1929, the ancestors of the present owners bought Château which they divided in two in 1941: Haut-Batailley with its vineyard and cellars and Batailley with the original Château, its vineyard and winery. It is built in the middle of the vineyard that the Aspic tower is located, a religious tribute to the Virgin Mary.

The vineyard is located south of the Pauillac appellation, on the border of the Saint-Juliens from which it derives in part its so particular characteristics

It is a fifth Grand Cru Classé according to the prestigious 1855 list.

The property covers 40 hectares and the vineyard whose average age is 30 years on 22 hectares planted in Cabernet Sauvignon 70%, Merlot Noir 25% and Cabernet Franc 5%. Soil and subsoil of deep Garonne gravel.

The production is about a hundred barrels or 120,000 bottles per year.

All the harvesting is done by hand and the wine is aged for the totality in barrels between 18 and 20 months before bottling.